An incorporated object marker in Takelma

Christopher Culy

Abstract

This paper concerns the distribution of Takelma -k^h wa and its consquences for linguistic theory. First, it is argued that -k^h wa is an incorporated object topic marker. Second, the work of Aissen 1997, 1999a on syntactic obviation will be applied to Takelma -k^hwa, and the framework will be extended to shed new light on the notions of proximate and obviative. Finally,the beginnings of a typology of topic anaphora is suggested, in which -k^h wa is simply one type in a broader spectrum.