The Morphosyntax of Navajo Comparatives and the Degree Argument
Bogal-Allbritten Elizabeth.
SSILA, San Francisc, 2009. — 8 p.I. Describe the differences in syntactic behavior associated with alternation in two derivational prefixes (ni-6 and ʼá-ní-2 ) that mark adjectival verbs.
II. Argue that ʼá-ní-2-marked verbs possess a second argument position, the degree argument, that is projected (and saturated) verb-externally.
II. Argue that ʼá-ní-2-marked verbs possess a second argument position, the degree argument, that is projected (and saturated) verb-externally.