Person-Case effects in Tseltal
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5809335 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kirill Shklovsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Linguistic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/tlr-2012-0016 |
| OpenAlex | W2321987094 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In this paper I show that in Tseltal (Mayan), constructions with aspectual auxiliary only admit third-person internal arguments, whereas embedding verbs that assign ergative case exhibit no such restriction. I offer an account of this contrast in terms of multiple-agree account of person-case constraint (PCC, Anagnostopoulou 2003; Anagnostopoulou 2005; Béjar and Rezac 2003) and inherent case theory of ergative case (Woolford 1997; Legate 2008; Aldridge 2007; Anand and Nevins 2006 inter alia). I show that the presence of PCC effects with aspectual verbs and absence of this restriction with transitive embedding verbs is predicted by these two theories. I then extend my account of PCC in Tseltal to show that some nominal ergative splits can be accounted for using the same framework
Ergative case · Language and cultural evolution · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
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