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22: 1568: 975:'no, none, nothing' which always comes at the beginning of the sentence that is to be negated. It is constructed in two possible ways, one for negatives of existence, and one for negatives of identity. If taking the form of a negative of identity, a proclitic 240:
which can mean 'on, above, in, beside, around' among a number of potential other meanings. They come before the object they reference, much like in English. Examples of this can be found in the following sentences:
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Lushootseed is capable of creating grammatically correct sentences that contain only a verb, with no subject or object. All information beyond the action is to be understood by context. This can be demonstrated in
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The main reason for the change of word order in Lushootseed is the fact that a subject pronoun must come second in a sentence. Normally, in VSO word order, the subject comes second. However, if a
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means 'permeate, throughout, filled with, covered with'. It marks stems by converting '' to 'thing serving to contain ', for containers that hold the stem noun in a distributed manner; compare
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Determiners usually come before a noun they belong to, and have two possible genders "masculine" (the default) and "feminine". However, in a sentence reordered to become SVO, such as
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Lushootseed has a wide variety of miscellaneous derivational affixes. Most of them apply to nouns to change their exact meaning, but several can change nouns to verbs or vice versa.
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is one of the most common. It indicates an imperfective aspect-present tense (similar to English '-ing') for verbs that do not involve motion. More specifically, a verb may use
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must be added to the sentence on the next adverb. If there are no further adverbs in the sentence, the proclitic attaches to the head word of the predicate, as in the sentence
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language, given its high number of morphemes, including a large number of lexical suffixes. Word order is fairly flexible, although it is generally considered to be
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is used, the word order is changed to object-subject to preserve the subject-pronoun-second rule. A similar scenario occurs with the negator
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Here, negation takes the first position, the subject pronoun takes the second, and 'Lummi' is pushed to the end of the sentence.
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literally means 'to jump, leap, or run, especially in a short burst of energy', and is correctly used with
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if it does not result in a change of position for its subject. It is commonly known as a "state of being":
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Almost all instances of a verb in Lushootseed (excluding the zero copula) carry a prefix indicating their
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house," referring not to a literal herring house but to the herring which were prolific there.
1092:'place for keeping '. This prefix is also carried by words relating to the mind, known as the 682: 1116:'gums' (literally 'place for storing teeth') can not refer to something 'covered with teeth'. 327:
within the determiner, following immediately after the first sound of the word. For example,
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Gender distinction in Lushootseed primarily manifests in the addition of a feminine infix
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to mark the change. The exact nature of this particle is the subject of some debate.
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actually means 'on top of a large/bulky object' on its own, but still contains the
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is considered marginal and does not work with an actual lexical possessor.
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Despite its general status as VSO, Lushootseed can be rearranged to be
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Prepositions in Lushootseed are almost entirely handled by one word,
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in that it does not mean 'something filled or covered with'. Hence,
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For nouns that have only one possible reference, such as names
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For nouns that have only one possible reference, such as names
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There are five possessive affixes, derived from the pronouns:
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The third person plural (which is always optional) loses its
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in Lushootseed, including the name of the language itself.
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Negation in Lushootseed takes the form of an adverb
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University of Washington Press. 14: 1763:Swinomish Indian Tribal Community 129:of the Salishan language family. 1297:Hess, Thom; Hilbert, Vi (1995). 20: 1819:Port Madison Indian Reservation 1340:(9): 403–419 – via JSTOR. 1246:Hess, Thom, 1936-2009. (1995). 603:'you' (second-person plural). 31:needs additional citations for 1758:Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians 1: 585:'I' (first-person singular), 1814:Swinomish Indian Reservation 1768:Tulalip Tribes of Washington 591:'we' (first-person plural), 1741:Federally recognized tribes 1361:. Puyallup Tribe of Indians 1334:Anthropological Linguistics 1136:, the location of a former 1887: 1753:Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe 1300:Lushootseed Grammar Book 1 1059:The third person singular 826:- prefix is replaced with 1788:Puyallup Tribe of Indians 1748:Upper Skagit Indian Tribe 1564: 932:-. In contrast, the verb 1871:Native American grammars 1783:Muckleshoot Indian Tribe 1583:Salishan oral narratives 1359:Puyallup Tribal Language 1096:. Many stems begin with 985:'Don't get hurt again'. 607:Pronouns of Lushootseed 532:Generic or hypothetical 418:Generic or hypothetical 1778:Snoqualmie Indian Tribe 1181: 1167: 1157: 1132: 1067:Derivational morphology 981: 971: 953: 943: 935: 927: 909: 899: 890: 882: 873: 865: 857: 854:actions use the prefix 839: 829: 821: 807: 796: 787: 599: 593: 587: 581: 335: 329: 316: 310: 295: 289: 277: 262: 246: 216: 201: 166: 156: 1793:Nisqually Indian Tribe 1410:Lushootseed Dictionary 1384:Lushootseed dictionary 1330:"Lushootseed Dialects" 1208:Lushootseed dictionary 1155:Northern Lushootseed: 982:xʷiʔ čəxʷ sixʷ ləbakʷɬ 962: 918: 862:-. 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Lushootseed
Coast Salish language
agglutinating
verb-subject-object
copula
subject-verb-object
verb-object-subject
zero copula
tense
aspect
telic
Past
Future
Habitual
telic
Duwamish
herring
Southern Lushootseed
Muckleshoot

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