The *t-V-ce System of the Carib Languages and the Kuikuro Resultative Participle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5353398 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gelsama Mara Ferreira Dos Santos (0000-0003-0222-1280, Universidade Federal do Amapá, corresponding author), Bruna Franchetto (0000-0001-7158-3838, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 34 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages9020034 |
| OpenAlex | W4391139343 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
In the Kuikuro language (Upper Xingu Carib), the construction tü-/ t-verb-i/-ti/-si/-stress is a reflex of the Carib proto-construction *t-V-ce, often labeled as a 'participle'. It is a morphological form composed of a prefix and a set of allomorphic suffixes that attach to transitive, intransitive, transitivized, or detransitivized verb stems. In this paper, the construction tü-/ t-verb-i/-ti/-si/-stress is described and analyzed as a resultative denoting a grammatically represented result of an event that is the background of a subsequent foregrounded event. We argue that, in Kuikuro, the participial verb inflection has aspectual value and we define the construction tü-/ t-verb-i/-ti/-si/-stress as participial resultative aspect. Unlike in English, in Kuikuro, an ergative language, the resultative participial forms of transitive and transitivized verb stems license their external arguments. A description of the morphosyntax, semantics, and uses of Kuikuro participial forms precedes a final theoretically based approach that departs from Embick's analysis of English participles. Our proposal for the analysis of the resultative participles in Kuikuro emphasizes the importance of this phenomenon for a comparison inside the Carib family and for ergative languages regarding the relationship between transitive resultative participles and ergativity
Participle · Resultative · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |