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Ergativity in Amazonia / / edited by Spike Gildea, Francesc Queixalós
| Ergativity in Amazonia / / edited by Spike Gildea, Francesc Queixalós |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 319 p |
| Disciplina | 415 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GildeaSpike
QueixalósFrancisco |
| Collana | Typological studies in language |
| Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Ergative constructions
Indians of South America - Amazon River Region - Languages |
| ISBN |
9786612558696
9781282558694 1282558692 9789027288509 902728850X |
| Classificazione | EE 7250 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Manifestations of ergativity in Amazonia / Francesc Queixalós and Spike Gildea --PART I. Well-established systems: Morphological ergativity: Ergativity in the Mayoruna branch of the Panoan family / David W. Fleck -- Ergativity in Shipibo-Konibo, a Panoan language of the Ucayali / Pilar M. Valenzuela -- How ergative is Cavineña? / Antoine Guillaume -- The ergativity effect in Kuikuro (Southern Carib, Brazil) / Bruna Franchetto -- Nominative-absolutive: Counter-universal split ergativity in Jê and Cariban / Spike Gildea and Flávia de Castro Alves -- PART II. Recent diachronic innovations: Syntactic ergativity: Ergativity in Trumai / Raquel Guirardello-Damian -- Grammatical relations in Katukina-Kanamari / Francesc Queixalós -- The intransitive basis of Movima clause structure / Katharina Haude. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910968150203321 |
| Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Subordination in native South American languages / / edited by Rik van Gijn, Katharina Haude, Pieter Muysken
| Subordination in native South American languages / / edited by Rik van Gijn, Katharina Haude, Pieter Muysken |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia [Pa.], : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | viii, 315 p. : ill., maps |
| Disciplina | 498 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GijnRik van
HaudeKatharina MuyskenPieter |
| Collana | Typological studies in language |
| Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Variation
Indians of South America - Languages |
| ISBN |
9786613093158
9789027287090 9027287090 9781283093156 1283093154 |
| Classificazione | EE 7250 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Subordination in Native South American Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Subordination in South America -- 1. What is subordination? -- 2. The discovery of subordination strategies in South America -- 3. Major patterns in South-American subordination strategies -- 4. The contributions in the present volume -- Abbreviations -- References -- Subordinate adverbial constructions in Mekens -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of Mekens major morphosyntactic properties -- 3. Adverbial constructions -- 3.1 Temporal/conditional adverbial modification -- 3.1.1 [Nominalization + Postp] -- 3.1.2 [DEM + Postp] -- 3.2 Cause and reason adverbial constructions -- 3.2.1 [Noun/nominalization + Postp] -- 3.2.2 [DEM+ Postps] -- 3.2.3 Derived verb phrase -- 3.3 Purposive adverbial constructions -- 3.3.1 Derived verb phrase -- 3.3.2 Complex structures with motion verbs -- 4. Summary -- Abbreviations -- References -- Relative clauses in Mebẽngokre -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Introduction to Mẽbengokre noun phrases -- 3. Internal characteristics of relative clauses -- 3.1 Relative clauses lack tense and other categories -- 3.2 There is no marking of the head -- 3.3 No restriction on positions that may be relativized -- 3.4 Definiteness of the internal head -- 3.5 Heads can be dropped -- 4. External characteristics of relative clauses -- 4.1 The nature of RC-external elements -- 4.2 External versus internal heads -- 4.3 Dislocation of relative clauses -- 5. General characterization of relative clauses -- 5.1 Comparison with complement and adjunct clauses -- 6. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- Rerences -- Clause embedding strategies in Baure (Arawakan) -- 1. General information -- 2. Typological overview -- 3. Clause combining, subordination, and clause embedding in Baure -- 4. Embedded clauses.
4.1 Relative clauses marked by -no 'nmlz' -- 4.2 Relative clauses marked by -ri 'Pnmlz' -- 4.3 Complement clauses marked by -cho 'ptcp' -- 4.4 Comparison of embedding strategies -- 4.5 Complex embedding -- 5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Subordinate clauses, switch-reference, and tail-head linkage in Cavineña narratives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cavineña: Some morphosyntactic background -- 2.1 Main clauses -- 2.2 Subordinate clauses -- 3. Temporal subordinate clauses -- 3.1 Non-finite temporal same-subject clause -- 3.2 Finite temporal different-subject clause -- 3.3 Adverbially-used relative clauses -- 4. Variation on a theme: Formal variants of THL in Cavineña -- 5. Cavineña THL and processing ease -- 6. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References -- Appendix -- Illustrative text -- Referring to states and events -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic main clause structure -- 2.1 The major components of main clauses -- 2.2 Argument encoding and alignment -- 2.3 Verbal voice marking -- 3. Referential phrases -- 3.1 Articles -- 3.2 Verbs in RPs -- 3.3 Possessor encoding -- 4. Nouns and verbs -- 5. Subordinate clauses -- 5.1 Types and functions of subordinate clauses -- 5.2 Subordinate derivation: Nominalization or lexical aspect? -- 5.3 Argument structure and alignment in subordinate phrases -- 5.4 Voice marking on subordinate predicates -- 5.5 The article in subordinate phrases -- 6. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Semantic and grammatical integration in Yurakaré subordination -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 General data -- 2. Defining subordination -- 3. Clause combinations in Yurakaré -- 3.1 Serial-verb constructions -- 3.2 Deranked clauses with a subordination marker -- 3.3 Balanced clauses with a subordination marker -- 4. Conceptual integration and clause integration -- 5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References. Subordination in Cholón -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Stems, prefixes, and suffixes -- 2.1 Simple stems -- 2.2 Complex stems -- 2.3 Derivation -- 2.4 Person marking -- 2.5 TAM -- 2.6 Excursus on the copula -- 2.7 Verb structures: A summary -- 3. Subordinate clauses -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Complement clauses -- 3.2.1 Subject clauses -- 3.2.2 Object clauses -- 3.2.3 Nominal predicate clauses -- 3.3 Relative clauses -- 3.3.1 Nominalizers -eč, -lam, -ŋo, -wuč -- 3.3.2 Demonstratives iŋko, into-ŋko and ko, and the indefinite pronoun ol -- 3.3.3 Finite verb forms -- 3.4 Adverbial clauses -- 3.4.1 Causal clauses -- 3.4.2 Purposive clauses -- 3.4.3 Temporal clauses -- 3.4.4 Resultative clauses -- 3.4.5 Other adverbial clauses -- 3.4.6 Hypothetical clauses -- 3.4.7 Concessive and conditional clauses -- 3.5 Excursus on nominalizers, (nominalizing) subordinators and subordinate clauses -- 4. Conclusion: Synoptic overview -- 4.1 Subordination without case marking -- 4.2 Subordination with case marking -- Abbreviations -- References -- Cofán subordinate clauses in a typology of subordination -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Cofán -- 1.2 Aim of this paper -- 2. Subordination from a cross-linguistic perspective -- 2.1 Balanced and deranked subordinate clauses -- 2.2 Cristofaro 2003 -- 2.3 Malchukov 2004 -- 2.4 Cliticized subordinating conjunctions -- 3. Cofán main and subordinate clauses -- 4. Subordination stategies in Cofán -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Balanced subordinate clauses -- 4.2.1 cho clauses -- 4.2.2 =pa and =si clauses -- 4.2.3 Case and/or definiteness marked subordinate clauses -- 4.2.3.1 =ma and =ve subordinate clauses -- 4.2.3.2 =ni, =ni=ja/=ta and =ja/=ta clauses -- 4.3 Deranked subordinate clauses -- 4.3.1 -ye clauses -- 4.3.2 -'su clauses -- 4.3.3 -pa nominalizations -- 4.4 Summary -- 5. Discussion of the data from a typological perspective. 5.1 The coding of the participants -- 5.2 The coding of the verb -- 5.3 The expression of case -- 6. Summary and conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Relative clauses in Ecuadorian Quechua -- 1. Overview -- 2. The basic nominalizing suffixes and relative clause formation in Imbabura Quechua -- 3. Dialect variation in Ecuadorian Quechua relative clauses -- 3.1 Preliminary remarks -- 3.2 Historical sources for Ecuadorian Quechua and the situation in other Quechua varieties -- 3.3 Salcedo and Tigua Quechua -- 3.4 Salasaca Quechua -- 3.5 Arajuno (Tena) Quechua -- 3.6 Calderón Quechua -- 4. Theoretical analysis in terms of Optimality Theory -- 4.1 Three main dialect areas -- 4.2 A theoretical account -- 5. Implications for the development of Ecuadorian Quechua -- 6. Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References -- Participial clauses in Tarma Quechua -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Types of subordination -- 2.1 Adverbial subordination (converbs) -- 2.2 Nominalization and case -- 2.3 Nominalization without case -- 3. Types of nominalization -- 4. The participial clause, a non-standard use of -sha nominalization in Tarma Quechua -- 5. Aspect in participial clauses -- 6. Participial clauses with an encoded object -- 7. A possible model for the absence of ergative behavior in participial clauses -- 8. Quechua participial clauses and the Indo-European absolute construction -- 9. Final semantic characterization of the participial clause in Tarma Quechua -- Abbreviations -- References -- Complex sentences in Uchumataqu in a comparative perspective with Chipaya -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Sociolinguistic and historical aspects -- 1.2 Sources on Uchumataqu -- 1.3 Aim of the paper -- 2. Subordination in Uchumataqu -- 2.1 Adverbial relations -- 2.1.1 Time sequence relations -- 2.1.2 Simultaneity relations -- 2.1.3 Conditional relations -- 2.1.4 Purpose relations. 2.2 Complement relations -- 2.2.1 Action nominaliser -s(i) -- 2.2.2 Multiverb constructions -- 3. Uchumataqu and Chipaya in a comparative perspective -- 3.1 Adverbial relations -- 3.2 Complement relations -- 3.3 Adjectival relations -- 3.4 Preliminary conclusions -- 4. Conclusions -- Abbreviations and symbols -- References -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index -- The series Typological Studies in Language. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910955889303321 |
| Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia [Pa.], : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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