Clause chaining and switch-reference in Aikanã and Kwaza
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5261490 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hein Van Der Voort (0000-0002-9944-6816, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Ciências Humanas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1981-8122 • E-ISSN: 2178-2547 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2021-0077 |
| OpenAlex | W4205240573 |
| SciELO | S1981-81222021000300905 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
In Aikanã and Kwaza, neighbouring endangered isolate languages of Rondônia, Brazil, sentences can include chains of medial clauses and end with a predicate in a matrix sentence mood, such as declarative, interrogative etc. In Kwaza, traditional narratives may even consist of a single long string of medial clauses, terminated by a fixed formula in the declarative mood. In both languages, subject (dis)continuity is expressed by a switch-reference system that indicates on the predicate of the current clause whether the subject of the next clause will be different or not. In this descriptive article I present similarities and differences between the systems of switch-reference in Aikanã and Kwaza. Among the differences, I discuss cases of formally marked switch-reference that appears to express topic discontinuity rather than subject discontinuity, in Kwaza. Also, I analyse the unusual anticipatory nature of the Kwaza system. As a special feature of this article I include two versions of a traditional mythological narrative, originally told in Aikanã and later retold in Kwaza, to illustrate clause chaining and switch-reference through a coherent and culturally relevant text
Attributive · Chaining · Dependent clause · Interrogative · Linguistics · Narrative · Natural language processing · Predicate (mathematical logic · Programming language · Sentence · Subject (documents · Suffix · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |