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Conlangery #108: Obviation

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The Role of Obviative in the Discourse

A possessed noun that is a noun possessed by a third person cannot be proximate, at least it can't be in blackfoot. So that's just something I ran into my reading and I thought I would mention that. Now you can have a situation where the possessor is also obviative, but in general I expect the possessor. And that makes sense. My father is perfectly acceptable as a proximate noun phrase. His father is not. Who's cat? That's not to say. Sorry. We've got cats. He's assigned me as he talks a lot. That's fine. It looks like I was trying to do point of view switching with obviative

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