Agreement with the internal possessor in Chimane

A mediated locality approach

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20380928
AutoresSandy Ritchie (Independent Researcher, UK, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen41
Número3
Páginas660-716
Fecha de publicación2017-10-25
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaStudies in Language (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0378-4177 • E-ISSN: 1569-9978
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/sl.41.3.05rit
OpenAlexW2727758278
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas44

The paper examines a type of clausal construction in Chimane (or Tsimane’, unclassified, Bolivia) in which possessors which are apparently internal to patient- or recipient-like possessive phrases can control object agreement on the verb. Various aspects of the construction point to an analysis in which the internal possessor is doubled by an external representation or ‘proxy’ in the clause which mediates the agreement relation between the possessor and the verb. The construction bears some resemblance to external possessor constructions, albeit with the added complication that the possessor itself remains internal to the possessive phrase while its argument function is borne by the external proxy. The paper examines features of the construction and contrasts it with similar or related phenomena which have been identified in other languages

Linguistics · Noun · Noun phrase · Phrase · Possessive · Verb · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Medicine · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation