Abstract
The syntactic behaviour of the object marker Puukwië in Nuu-chah-nulth is documented based on fieldwork data that illustrate patterns not previously discussed in the literature. A Minimalist-type analysis is presented, in which Puukwië is a light verb of the category v and is generated in the complement position of the main verb. This captures certain traits of Puukwië that have hitherto not been unified under a single analysis: its morphological and syntactic autonomy, its semantic dependence on another predicate for argument structure, its link to discourse saliency, and its use as an auxiliary item in A0-raising constructions. Résumé
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