Asymmetries among Person Indexes in Kawahíva

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7807746
AutoresWesley Dos Santos (University of California, Berkeley, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume89
Fascículo4
Páginas427-455
Data de publicação2023-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/726149
OpenAlexW4386923258
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas6

Several Tupí-Guaraní languages have a set of indexes for the subject argument and one set of indexes for the object argument. Previous discussions of these markers have not reached a consensus. Some works have suggested that subject markers are inflectional, but object markers are pronominal (e.g., Cardoso 2008 for Kaiowá, a.o.). An alternative approach, however, suggests through notational choices that both sets are inflectional (Gregóres and Suárez 1967 for Paraguayan Guaraní). This paper draws on original data from Kawahíva and documents asymmetries found in patterns of i) NP and index co-occurrence, ii) reduplication, and iii) root allomorphy between subject indexes (here called Set A) and object indexes (called Set B). I argue the differences between the two sets follow straightforwardly in the former view, which claims that Set A is inflectional and Set B is pronominal

Allomorph · Argument (complex analysis · Index (typography · Linguistics · Morpheme · Natural language processing · Object (grammar · Reduplication · Root (linguistics · Set (abstract data type · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Language and cultural evolution · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation