TY - CHAP
T1 - Grammatical relations in Kubeo
AU - Chacon, Thiago Costa
AU - Genetti, Carol
N1 - Funding Information:
1. This research on Kubeo has been supported by a variety of grants from different institutions: Endangered language Fund (ELF-2008), University of Brasilia’s Laboratory of Indigenous Languages (LALI – 2007/2008), Fundação Nacional do Índio (FUNAI 2009–2010), Endangered Language Development Project (ELDPG SG00038-2010–2011), National Science Foundation - Dissertation Improvement Grant NSF/DIG 2011 and 2012), and a postdoctoral fellowship from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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© 2019 John Benjamins Publishing Company
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This paper describes a number of argument selectors for grammatical relations in Kubeo, an Eastern Tukanoan language spoken in the Vaupes River area in Northwestern Amazonia. The main selectors discussed in this paper are: verbal agreement, case marking, constituent ordering, causative, applicative, non-finite clauses, passive, noun incorporation and anaphoric constructions. The overwhelming grammatical pattern selects S, A, and Aditr for similar treatment in contrast to the remaining argument types; some constructions suggest a distinction between two types of S arguments, which we analyze as Sa versus Sp. The language presents the phenomenon of differential object marking, as well as analytical challenges related to non-canonical passivization and the way that animacy, referentiality and argument hierarchies correlate in the organization of grammatical relations.
AB - This paper describes a number of argument selectors for grammatical relations in Kubeo, an Eastern Tukanoan language spoken in the Vaupes River area in Northwestern Amazonia. The main selectors discussed in this paper are: verbal agreement, case marking, constituent ordering, causative, applicative, non-finite clauses, passive, noun incorporation and anaphoric constructions. The overwhelming grammatical pattern selects S, A, and Aditr for similar treatment in contrast to the remaining argument types; some constructions suggest a distinction between two types of S arguments, which we analyze as Sa versus Sp. The language presents the phenomenon of differential object marking, as well as analytical challenges related to non-canonical passivization and the way that animacy, referentiality and argument hierarchies correlate in the organization of grammatical relations.
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U2 - 10.1075/tsl.123.11cha
DO - 10.1075/tsl.123.11cha
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85075524975
T3 - Typological Studies in Language
SP - 399
EP - 432
BT - Argument Selectors. A new perspective on grammatical relations
A2 - Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena
A2 - Bickel, Balthasar
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
ER -