Asymmetries among Person Indexes in Kawahíva

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7807746
AutoresWesley Dos Santos (University of California, Berkeley, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen89
Número4
Páginas427-455
Fecha de publicación2023-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/726149
OpenAlexW4386923258
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias 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