Grammatical replication

First-person non-singular verbal indexes in Eastern Toba, Western Toba (Guaicuruan) and Tapiete (Tupi-Guaraní)

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ID21436088
AutoresMaría Belén Carpio (0000-0001-5344-6987, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), Raul Eduardo Gonzalez (0000-0002-1495-8434, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), Marcela Mendoza (0000-0001-8163-8986, Western Michigan University)
Año2021
Volumen49
Número1
Páginas47-75
Fecha de publicación2021-04-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLenguaje (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0120-3479 • E-ISSN: 2539-3804
EditorialUniversidad del Valle (PUBLISHER • CO)
DOI10.25100/lenguaje.v49i1.9134
OpenAlexW3165583171
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas13

In this paper we suggest that linguistic features can show traces of the frequency and intensity of social interactions between indigenous peoples. We focus on peoples of the alluvial fan of the Pilcomayo River (South American Chaco), and analyze first-person non-singular verbal encoding in their languages. The corpus is composed of (a) data obtained during fieldwork, (b) descriptive grammars, and (c) published reports by missionaries, army officers, and European travelers. Combining environmental and ethnohistorical information, we propose that the first-person non-singular subject verbal indexes split visible in Eastern Toba of the Lower Pilcomayo River, Western Toba from the Upper-Middle Pilcomayo River (Guaicuruan), and Tapiete of the Upper Pilcomayo River area (Tupi-Guaraní) could be an outcome of language-internal resources used by the speakers of these languages to replicate the Matacoan (Maká, Nivaclé, and Wichí) external model

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