Morphosyntatic aspects of relativization in shipibo-konibo (pano)
The present article discusses crucial morpho-syntactic aspects of relative constructions in Shipibo-Konibo, a Panoan language spoken in the Peruvian Amazon. The analysis is predominantly based on data extracted from spontaneous texts. Shipibo-Konibo exhibits a number of features that are uncommon in...
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| description | The present article discusses crucial morpho-syntactic aspects of relative constructions in Shipibo-Konibo, a Panoan language spoken in the Peruvian Amazon. The analysis is predominantly based on data extracted from spontaneous texts. Shipibo-Konibo exhibits a number of features that are uncommon in the languages of the world, such as the coexistence of prenominal, postnominal, and internally-headed relative clauses using the gap strategy. Also, the anaphoric pronoun strategy is attested in subject relativization, even when the relative clause precedes its head nominal. Although the same form can be employed to relativize different syntactic positions (A, S, O), in transitive internallyheaded relative clauses it is the object argument that must be interpreted as nucleus and hence as co-referential with an argument in the matrix clause. Given that internally-headed relatives also allow for intransitive subject relativization, they show an absolutive distribution. This constitutes the only instance of syntactic ergativity in an otherwise morphologically ergative but syntactically accusative language. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0b529072735643bd9528653c0676b5cf2022-12-21T22:40:44ZengMuseu Paraense Emílio GoeldiBoletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas1981-81222006-04-0111123134Morphosyntatic aspects of relativization in shipibo-konibo (pano)Pilar Valenzuela BismarkThe present article discusses crucial morpho-syntactic aspects of relative constructions in Shipibo-Konibo, a Panoan language spoken in the Peruvian Amazon. The analysis is predominantly based on data extracted from spontaneous texts. Shipibo-Konibo exhibits a number of features that are uncommon in the languages of the world, such as the coexistence of prenominal, postnominal, and internally-headed relative clauses using the gap strategy. Also, the anaphoric pronoun strategy is attested in subject relativization, even when the relative clause precedes its head nominal. Although the same form can be employed to relativize different syntactic positions (A, S, O), in transitive internallyheaded relative clauses it is the object argument that must be interpreted as nucleus and hence as co-referential with an argument in the matrix clause. Given that internally-headed relatives also allow for intransitive subject relativization, they show an absolutive distribution. This constitutes the only instance of syntactic ergativity in an otherwise morphologically ergative but syntactically accusative language.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-81222006000100009&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=ptShipibo-KoniboPanoanMorpho-syntaxTypologyRelativizationWord order |
| spellingShingle | Pilar Valenzuela Bismark Morphosyntatic aspects of relativization in shipibo-konibo (pano) Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas Shipibo-Konibo Panoan Morpho-syntax Typology Relativization Word order |
| title | Morphosyntatic aspects of relativization in shipibo-konibo (pano) |
| title_full | Morphosyntatic aspects of relativization in shipibo-konibo (pano) |
| title_fullStr | Morphosyntatic aspects of relativization in shipibo-konibo (pano) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Morphosyntatic aspects of relativization in shipibo-konibo (pano) |
| title_short | Morphosyntatic aspects of relativization in shipibo-konibo (pano) |
| title_sort | morphosyntatic aspects of relativization in shipibo konibo pano |
| topic | Shipibo-Konibo Panoan Morpho-syntax Typology Relativization Word order |
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