On the interpretation of long-distance agreement in Border Lakes Ojibwe

• Published in: Natural language and linguistic theory Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 1517 - 1549
• Main Authors: Hammerly, Christopher, Mathieu, Éric
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.08.2025; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Algonquian languages; Cognition; Cognition & reasoning; Evidentiality; Extended projection principle; French language; Grammatical agreement; Information sources; Linguistics; Lithuanian language; Morphology; Natural Language Processing (NLP); Ojibwa language; Participles; Phi features; Philosophy of Language; Semantics; Social Sciences; Verbs; Perception/cognition verbs; Algonquian; Evidentiality; Long-distance agreement; Source of information; Ojibwe; Features; Interpretation; Epistemic commitment

The aim of this article is to show that long-distance agreement (LDA) in Border Lakes Ojibwe (Central Algonquian) correlates not with topicality, as claimed in past literature, but with evidentiality (direct evidence), a finding that adds to the set of existing evidential extensions of non-evidentia...