Ergatividade cindida, papel temático e causativização na língua Ka’apor

This paper examines the Case and theta role assignment to DPs in theKa’apor language. Our hypothesis is that Ka’apor manifests a split Casesystem, which may be triggered either by the semantic nature of stativepredicates or by the DPs that receive the theta role “paciente/theme”.In addition to this,...

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Main Authors: Fábio Bonfim Duarte, Mário Alexandre Garcia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2012-11-01
Series:Revista de Estudos da Linguagem
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Online Access:http://periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/relin/article/view/2430