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  • On the structure of (personal) pronouns in Inuktut

  • Richard Compton
  • Journal:
    Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique / Volume 67 / Issue 3 / September 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    26 July 2022, pp. 194-215
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  • This article examines the internal structure of personal pronouns in Inuktut. Building on previous work on syntactic variation and universals in personal pronoun systems (Harley and Ritter 2002, Ghomeshi and Massam 2020) and drawing on arguments that these and demonstrative pronouns are structurally complex (Déchaine and Wiltschko 2002, Leu 2015), it is argued that Inuktut pronouns are morphosyntactically complex, with exponents realizing multiple functional heads as well as an overt root. In particular, it is claimed that (local) person is represented twice, both as a root and in a higher functional projection. Previous arguments that Inuktut pronouns should instead be analyzed as D heads based on Adnominal Pronoun Constructions are also addressed (Yuan 2018, 2021).