Western Abenaki and English/Contrastive Grammar

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Contents

1 Animacy
- 1.1 Noun Animacy
- 1.2 Verb Animacy
2 Plural Agreement
- 2.1 Adjective Plurality
- 2.2 Verb Plurality
3 First Person Possessive

Animacy

Nouns and verbs are tagged with animacy, and there are different verbs depending on whether the subject/object are animate or inanimate.

Noun Animacy

Verb Animacy

Plural Agreement

Adjectives and verbs must agree with the relevant noun in plurality

Adjective Plurality

Verb Plurality

First Person Possessive

In Western Abenaki, the first person possesive marker is a prefixed 'n

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