Morphological Causatives and Split Intransitivity in Mapudungun

Bibliographic Data

ID4559699
AuthorsLucã­a Golluscio (0000-0001-8808-7611, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, corresponding author), Lucía A Golluscio
Year2007
Volume73
Issue2
Pages209-238
Publication date2007-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/519058
OpenAlexW2019058752
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited22

This article examines morphological causatives of intransitive verbs in Mapudungun (also Mapuche, Araucanian; Chile, Argentina). The patterning of intransitives in causativization reveals a split system, where the choice of causative suffix is governed by factors of animacy and control. One class, "inactive" intransitive verbs, is characterized as having members that are specialized, nonproductive, and "uncontrolled." The second and larger class, "active" intransitives, consists of animate verbs that take arguments with differing degrees of control and agentivity. Thus, in Mapudungun, the contrast between "inactive" and "active" intransitive verbs is overtly marked by the causative suffixes rather than by pronominal inflection

Animacy · Causative · Class (philosophy · Combinatorics · Contrast (vision · Control (management · Epistemology · Inflection · Linguistics · Suffix · Transitive relation · Verb · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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