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ERIC Number: EJ111074
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Publication Date: 1974
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The Fourth Person Fiction in Algonkian
Delisle, Gilles L.
Linguistics, 132, 19-32, Jul 74
It is argued that the so-called fourth person or obviative of Chippewa and probably other Algonkian languages is the result of a syntactic feature switch rule, and that the "fourth person" label is inapproapriate and misleading. (CK)
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