Leslie Saxon
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198817925
- eISBN:
- 9780191859304
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198817925.003.0007
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Syntax and Morphology, Phonetics / Phonology
Study of the periphrastic causative in Tłı̨chǫ has its origins in community-based research supporting a literacy manual and dictionary database. It is shown that the causative verb ats’ele ‘cause, ...
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Study of the periphrastic causative in Tłı̨chǫ has its origins in community-based research supporting a literacy manual and dictionary database. It is shown that the causative verb ats’ele ‘cause, let, do to’ takes two complements: the causee and a second expression of varying complexity that indicates the caused process or result. At its most complex, the second complement can be a clause which bears an adverbializing suffix and expresses the caused situation. Ats’ele selects a TypeP, which is independent of the higher verb in aspect, tense, and polarity. This leads to a broader range of interpretations of the relationship between causing and caused situations than is found in languages where the caused situation is expressed as a verb phrase. The complementizer used in the causative construction contrasts with a nominalizer in the language, in that it forms an adverbial clause. The facts thus provide a novel instance of non-nominal complementation.Less
Study of the periphrastic causative in Tłı̨chǫ has its origins in community-based research supporting a literacy manual and dictionary database. It is shown that the causative verb ats’ele ‘cause, let, do to’ takes two complements: the causee and a second expression of varying complexity that indicates the caused process or result. At its most complex, the second complement can be a clause which bears an adverbializing suffix and expresses the caused situation. Ats’ele selects a TypeP, which is independent of the higher verb in aspect, tense, and polarity. This leads to a broader range of interpretations of the relationship between causing and caused situations than is found in languages where the caused situation is expressed as a verb phrase. The complementizer used in the causative construction contrasts with a nominalizer in the language, in that it forms an adverbial clause. The facts thus provide a novel instance of non-nominal complementation.
Miranda Johnson
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780190600020
- eISBN:
- 9780190600051
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190600020.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
Chapter 3 examines the first collective land claim by Dene people in Canada’s Northwest Territories in 1973. Threatened by a proposed oil and gas pipeline, Dene people pursued land rights in a period ...
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Chapter 3 examines the first collective land claim by Dene people in Canada’s Northwest Territories in 1973. Threatened by a proposed oil and gas pipeline, Dene people pursued land rights in a period of rapid social and economic change. Drawing on historical treaties, they tried to push the state into negotiating with them as coeval partners with aboriginal title rights. When this strategy failed, they had to go to court where a sympathetic judge drew on the precedent established in the Gove land rights case to admit their histories into court. The case was hugely significant for Dene people and their struggle for self-determination. It also showed how risky legal strategies could be for indigenous peoples, particularly in terms of how their history as peoples of the land would be measured according to notions of authenticity they did not define.Less
Chapter 3 examines the first collective land claim by Dene people in Canada’s Northwest Territories in 1973. Threatened by a proposed oil and gas pipeline, Dene people pursued land rights in a period of rapid social and economic change. Drawing on historical treaties, they tried to push the state into negotiating with them as coeval partners with aboriginal title rights. When this strategy failed, they had to go to court where a sympathetic judge drew on the precedent established in the Gove land rights case to admit their histories into court. The case was hugely significant for Dene people and their struggle for self-determination. It also showed how risky legal strategies could be for indigenous peoples, particularly in terms of how their history as peoples of the land would be measured according to notions of authenticity they did not define.
