Federico Zúñiga
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 227286 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Federico Zúñiga |
| NOMBRES | Federico |
| APELLIDO | Zúñiga |
| FIRMA | ZÚÑIGA F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9015-6601 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Construcciones predicativas no verbales del mapudungun
This study examines non-verbal predicative constructions in Mapudungun, with the aim of providing a systematic description from a typological perspective. The objective is to analyze the morphosyntactic strategies employed by the language to encode non-verbal predication, specifically within nominal, adjectival, and adverbial domains. The methodological framework is based on the model proposed by Creissels et al. (2025). It combines the analysis …
Noun Incorporation in Bribri
Applicativizing preverbs in selected European languages
This chapter surveys the morphology, syntax, and semantics of applicativizing preverbs in English, German, Hungarian, and the Slavic and Baltic languages, with some comments on their non-applicativizing uses. Applicativizing preverbs may be particles or affixes, are transparently related to adverbs/adpositions with spatial and/or aspectual functions, and introduce a new participant to the clause (usually a direct object, occasionally an oblique a…
Datives with psych nouns and adjectives in Basque
This paper explores the formal expression of two Basque dative argument types in combination with psych nouns and adjectives, in intransitive and transitive clauses: (i) those that express the experiencer, and (ii) those that express the stimulus of the psychological state denoted by the psych noun and adjective. In the intransitive structure involving a dative experiencer (DatExpIS), the stimulus is in the absolutive case, and the intransitive c…
Las construcciones negativas en mapudungun. Una mirada tipológica
Este trabajo explora las construcciones negativas del mapudungun desde la lingüística tipológica contemporánea. A partir de datos recogidos en el campo y de una discusión bibliográfica previa, se establecen los esquemas de la negación prototípicos del mapudungun y sus variaciones. Finalmente, se propone una clasificación tipológica de las construcciones de la lengua de acuerdo con la negación estándar y no estándar, los indefinidos negativos, el …
Grammatical Voice
The grammatical category of voice covers a wide range of phenomena, including causatives, applicatives, passives, antipassives, middles, and others. Drawing on data from over 200 languages, Fernando Zúñiga and Seppo Kittilä illustrate the semantic, morphological, and syntactic variation of voice across languages from a range of families and regions. They approach the topic from a broad and explicit perspective, and discuss a variety of topics tha…
Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony
The diachrony of morphosyntactic alignment
With morphological and syntactic argument properties, some arguments behave alike (i.e., they align with each other) while others do not. Such alignment patterns have received significant attention in the literature, but claims as to their origin and development are sometimes difficult to assess, due to scant actual data. This paper surveys the main hypotheses proposed in early and recent work on the topic, focusing on alignment type change and o…
Egophoricity, Involvement, and Semantic Roles in Tibeto-Burman Languages
In this study, we explore typological aspects of egophoricity marking based on selected Tibeto- Burman languages. Conceptualizing egophoricity as an autonomous grammatical category that marks access to knowledge, we first discuss how egophoricity marking interacts with evidentiality in the Tibeto-Burman languages Shigatse Tibetan and Bunan. We then go on to explore the differences between the egophoricity systems of Shigatse Tibetan and Bunan, ar…
On the Morphosyntax of Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Boas (1917) mentioned several phenomena found in the morphosyntax of Amerindian languages (including nominal incorporation and lexical affixation) that posed challenges to accepted views of synchronic and typological issues raised by genealogical relatedness and areal convergence on the continent, morpheme classes like roots, stems, and affixes in languages in general, and whether the fundamental unit of human speech is the word or the sentence. …
Inverse and symmetrical voice
In voice and alignment typology, a categorical distinction is generally made between inverse systems on the one hand and symmetrical voice systems on the other. A major reason for distinguishing between these two types is the assumption that inverse systems are governed by a hierarchy involving grammatical, semantic, and ontological criteria, while symmetrical voice systems are based on discourse-pragmatic factors. However, the two types also hav…
Referential hierarchies
This paper proposes a diachronic typology for the various patterns that have been referred to as Hierarchical Alignment or Inverse Alignment. Previous typological studies have tried to explain such patterns as grammatical reflections of a universal Referential Hierarchy, in which first person outranks second person outranks third person and humans outrank other animates outrank inanimates. However, our study shows that most of the formal properti…
Decomposing hierarchical alignment
Apart from common cases of differential argument marking, referential hierarchies affect argument marking in two ways: (a) through hierarchical marking, where markers compete for a slot and the competition is resolved by a hierarchy, and (b) through co-argument sensitivity, where the marking of one argument depends on the properties of its co-argument. Here we show that while co-argument sensitivity cannot be analyzed in terms of hierarchical mar…
Benefaction proper and surrogation
The semantic role of beneficiary is usually conceptualized in very general terms, typically without an intensive definition of what can constitute a benefit in the particular construction under study. Among those accounts that have proposed to discuss benefaction as related to the notion(s) of surrogation, substituting, and/or deputing, Kittilä (2005) proposes a distinction between recipients, beneficiaries, and recipient-beneficiaries based on t…
Recent developments and open questions in the field of semantic roles
This introductory chapter briefly introduces a few milestones in the voluminous previous literature on semantic roles, and charts the territory in which the papers of this volume aim to make a contribution. This territory is characterized by fairly disparate conceptualizations of semantic roles and their status in theories of grammar and the lexicon, as well as by diverse and probably complementary ways of deriving or identifying them based on li…
Word and the Americanist perspective
Inversion, Obviation, and Animacy in Native Languages of the Americas
Native languages of the Americas whose predicate and clause structure reflect nominal hierarchies show an interesting range of structural diversity not only with respect to morphological makeup of their predicates and arguments but also with respect to the factors governing obviation status. The present article maps part of such diversity. The sample surveyed here includes languages with some sort of nonlocal (third person acting on third person)…
(Anti-)cliticization in Mapudungun
Nuevos usos del patrimonio arqueológico de el tajín, a través de los procesos de turistificación, mercantilización y espectacularización
En la actualidad, el patrimonio arqueológico se encuentra atravesado por diversos procesos que lo han llevado gradualmente a transformarse en un recurso administrable, lo que conlleva analizar los nuevos usos y significados que obtiene en términos de rentabilidad y comercialización. Se señala que también experimenta un acelerado proceso de turistificación, mercantilización y espectacularización, adquiriendo con ello nuevos sentidos y usos. En con…
Referential Hierarchies in Three-Participant Constructions in Blackfoot
The article, Referential Hierarchies in Three-Participant Constructions in Blackfoot: The Effects of Animacy, Person, and Specificity, in the journal, Linguistic Discovery, Volume 10, Issue 3, Year 2012
Dos Progresivos y dos Resultativos en el Mapudungun
El presente artículo ha esbozado cómo el mapudungun ha gramaticalizado dos verbos, meke- 'estar ocupado/a en una actividad' y müle- 'estar', en funciones que configuran un sistema de oposiciones complejas y que se relacionan estrechamente con el aspecto léxico de los predicados a los cuales se aplican. Los siete tipos de situaciones postulados para el mapudungun interactúan de tal manera con el aspecto gramatical que el sufijo -meke requiere pode…
Deixis and Alignment
This book proposes a notion of inverse that differs from two widespread positions found in descriptive and typological studies (one of them restrictive and structure-oriented, the other broad and function-centered). This third stance put forward here takes both grammar and pragmatic functions into account, but it also relates the opposition between direct and inverse verbs and clauses to an opposition between deictic values, thereby achieving two…
Deixis and Alignment
This book proposes a notion of inverse that differs from two widespread positions found in descriptive and typological studies (one of them restrictive and structure-oriented, the other broad and function-centered). This third stance put forward here takes both grammar and pragmatic functions into account, but it also relates the opposition between direct and inverse verbs and clauses to an opposition between deictic values, thereby achieving two…
(Anti-)cliticization in Mapudungun
Decomposing hierarchical alignment
Apart from common cases of differential argument marking, referential hierarchies affect argument marking in two ways: (a) through hierarchical marking, where markers compete for a slot and the competition is resolved by a hierarchy, and (b) through co-argument sensitivity, where the marking of one argument depends on the properties of its co-argument. Here we show that while co-argument sensitivity cannot be analyzed in terms of hierarchical mar…
Word and the Americanist perspective
Nuevos usos del patrimonio arqueológico de el tajín, a través de los procesos de turistificación, mercantilización y espectacularización
En la actualidad, el patrimonio arqueológico se encuentra atravesado por diversos procesos que lo han llevado gradualmente a transformarse en un recurso administrable, lo que conlleva analizar los nuevos usos y significados que obtiene en términos de rentabilidad y comercialización. Se señala que también experimenta un acelerado proceso de turistificación, mercantilización y espectacularización, adquiriendo con ello nuevos sentidos y usos. En con…
Inverse and symmetrical voice
In voice and alignment typology, a categorical distinction is generally made between inverse systems on the one hand and symmetrical voice systems on the other. A major reason for distinguishing between these two types is the assumption that inverse systems are governed by a hierarchy involving grammatical, semantic, and ontological criteria, while symmetrical voice systems are based on discourse-pragmatic factors. However, the two types also hav…
The diachrony of morphosyntactic alignment
With morphological and syntactic argument properties, some arguments behave alike (i.e., they align with each other) while others do not. Such alignment patterns have received significant attention in the literature, but claims as to their origin and development are sometimes difficult to assess, due to scant actual data. This paper surveys the main hypotheses proposed in early and recent work on the topic, focusing on alignment type change and o…
Referential hierarchies
This paper proposes a diachronic typology for the various patterns that have been referred to as Hierarchical Alignment or Inverse Alignment. Previous typological studies have tried to explain such patterns as grammatical reflections of a universal Referential Hierarchy, in which first person outranks second person outranks third person and humans outrank other animates outrank inanimates. However, our study shows that most of the formal properti…
On the Morphosyntax of Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Boas (1917) mentioned several phenomena found in the morphosyntax of Amerindian languages (including nominal incorporation and lexical affixation) that posed challenges to accepted views of synchronic and typological issues raised by genealogical relatedness and areal convergence on the continent, morpheme classes like roots, stems, and affixes in languages in general, and whether the fundamental unit of human speech is the word or the sentence. …
Dos Progresivos y dos Resultativos en el Mapudungun
El presente artículo ha esbozado cómo el mapudungun ha gramaticalizado dos verbos, meke- 'estar ocupado/a en una actividad' y müle- 'estar', en funciones que configuran un sistema de oposiciones complejas y que se relacionan estrechamente con el aspecto léxico de los predicados a los cuales se aplican. Los siete tipos de situaciones postulados para el mapudungun interactúan de tal manera con el aspecto gramatical que el sufijo -meke requiere pode…
Deixis and Alignment
This book proposes a notion of inverse that differs from two widespread positions found in descriptive and typological studies (one of them restrictive and structure-oriented, the other broad and function-centered). This third stance put forward here takes both grammar and pragmatic functions into account, but it also relates the opposition between direct and inverse verbs and clauses to an opposition between deictic values, thereby achieving two…
Referential Hierarchies in Three-Participant Constructions in Blackfoot
The article, Referential Hierarchies in Three-Participant Constructions in Blackfoot: The Effects of Animacy, Person, and Specificity, in the journal, Linguistic Discovery, Volume 10, Issue 3, Year 2012
Dos Progresivos y dos Resultativos en el Mapudungun
El presente artículo ha esbozado cómo el mapudungun ha gramaticalizado dos verbos, meke- 'estar ocupado/a en una actividad' y müle- 'estar', en funciones que configuran un sistema de oposiciones complejas y que se relacionan estrechamente con el aspecto léxico de los predicados a los cuales se aplican. Los siete tipos de situaciones postulados para el mapudungun interactúan de tal manera con el aspecto gramatical que el sufijo -meke requiere pode…
Benefaction proper and surrogation
The semantic role of beneficiary is usually conceptualized in very general terms, typically without an intensive definition of what can constitute a benefit in the particular construction under study. Among those accounts that have proposed to discuss benefaction as related to the notion(s) of surrogation, substituting, and/or deputing, Kittilä (2005) proposes a distinction between recipients, beneficiaries, and recipient-beneficiaries based on t…
Recent developments and open questions in the field of semantic roles
This introductory chapter briefly introduces a few milestones in the voluminous previous literature on semantic roles, and charts the territory in which the papers of this volume aim to make a contribution. This territory is characterized by fairly disparate conceptualizations of semantic roles and their status in theories of grammar and the lexicon, as well as by diverse and probably complementary ways of deriving or identifying them based on li…
Word and the Americanist perspective
Inversion, Obviation, and Animacy in Native Languages of the Americas
Native languages of the Americas whose predicate and clause structure reflect nominal hierarchies show an interesting range of structural diversity not only with respect to morphological makeup of their predicates and arguments but also with respect to the factors governing obviation status. The present article maps part of such diversity. The sample surveyed here includes languages with some sort of nonlocal (third person acting on third person)…
(Anti-)cliticization in Mapudungun
Nuevos usos del patrimonio arqueológico de el tajín, a través de los procesos de turistificación, mercantilización y espectacularización
En la actualidad, el patrimonio arqueológico se encuentra atravesado por diversos procesos que lo han llevado gradualmente a transformarse en un recurso administrable, lo que conlleva analizar los nuevos usos y significados que obtiene en términos de rentabilidad y comercialización. Se señala que también experimenta un acelerado proceso de turistificación, mercantilización y espectacularización, adquiriendo con ello nuevos sentidos y usos. En con…
Inverse and symmetrical voice
In voice and alignment typology, a categorical distinction is generally made between inverse systems on the one hand and symmetrical voice systems on the other. A major reason for distinguishing between these two types is the assumption that inverse systems are governed by a hierarchy involving grammatical, semantic, and ontological criteria, while symmetrical voice systems are based on discourse-pragmatic factors. However, the two types also hav…
Referential hierarchies
This paper proposes a diachronic typology for the various patterns that have been referred to as Hierarchical Alignment or Inverse Alignment. Previous typological studies have tried to explain such patterns as grammatical reflections of a universal Referential Hierarchy, in which first person outranks second person outranks third person and humans outrank other animates outrank inanimates. However, our study shows that most of the formal properti…
Decomposing hierarchical alignment
Apart from common cases of differential argument marking, referential hierarchies affect argument marking in two ways: (a) through hierarchical marking, where markers compete for a slot and the competition is resolved by a hierarchy, and (b) through co-argument sensitivity, where the marking of one argument depends on the properties of its co-argument. Here we show that while co-argument sensitivity cannot be analyzed in terms of hierarchical mar…
Egophoricity, Involvement, and Semantic Roles in Tibeto-Burman Languages
In this study, we explore typological aspects of egophoricity marking based on selected Tibeto- Burman languages. Conceptualizing egophoricity as an autonomous grammatical category that marks access to knowledge, we first discuss how egophoricity marking interacts with evidentiality in the Tibeto-Burman languages Shigatse Tibetan and Bunan. We then go on to explore the differences between the egophoricity systems of Shigatse Tibetan and Bunan, ar…
On the Morphosyntax of Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Boas (1917) mentioned several phenomena found in the morphosyntax of Amerindian languages (including nominal incorporation and lexical affixation) that posed challenges to accepted views of synchronic and typological issues raised by genealogical relatedness and areal convergence on the continent, morpheme classes like roots, stems, and affixes in languages in general, and whether the fundamental unit of human speech is the word or the sentence. …
Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony
The diachrony of morphosyntactic alignment
With morphological and syntactic argument properties, some arguments behave alike (i.e., they align with each other) while others do not. Such alignment patterns have received significant attention in the literature, but claims as to their origin and development are sometimes difficult to assess, due to scant actual data. This paper surveys the main hypotheses proposed in early and recent work on the topic, focusing on alignment type change and o…
Grammatical Voice
The grammatical category of voice covers a wide range of phenomena, including causatives, applicatives, passives, antipassives, middles, and others. Drawing on data from over 200 languages, Fernando Zúñiga and Seppo Kittilä illustrate the semantic, morphological, and syntactic variation of voice across languages from a range of families and regions. They approach the topic from a broad and explicit perspective, and discuss a variety of topics tha…
Datives with psych nouns and adjectives in Basque
This paper explores the formal expression of two Basque dative argument types in combination with psych nouns and adjectives, in intransitive and transitive clauses: (i) those that express the experiencer, and (ii) those that express the stimulus of the psychological state denoted by the psych noun and adjective. In the intransitive structure involving a dative experiencer (DatExpIS), the stimulus is in the absolutive case, and the intransitive c…
Las construcciones negativas en mapudungun. Una mirada tipológica
Este trabajo explora las construcciones negativas del mapudungun desde la lingüística tipológica contemporánea. A partir de datos recogidos en el campo y de una discusión bibliográfica previa, se establecen los esquemas de la negación prototípicos del mapudungun y sus variaciones. Finalmente, se propone una clasificación tipológica de las construcciones de la lengua de acuerdo con la negación estándar y no estándar, los indefinidos negativos, el …
Applicativizing preverbs in selected European languages
This chapter surveys the morphology, syntax, and semantics of applicativizing preverbs in English, German, Hungarian, and the Slavic and Baltic languages, with some comments on their non-applicativizing uses. Applicativizing preverbs may be particles or affixes, are transparently related to adverbs/adpositions with spatial and/or aspectual functions, and introduce a new participant to the clause (usually a direct object, occasionally an oblique a…
Construcciones predicativas no verbales del mapudungun
This study examines non-verbal predicative constructions in Mapudungun, with the aim of providing a systematic description from a typological perspective. The objective is to analyze the morphosyntactic strategies employed by the language to encode non-verbal predication, specifically within nominal, adjectival, and adverbial domains. The methodological framework is based on the model proposed by Creissels et al. (2025). It combines the analysis …
Noun Incorporation in Bribri
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