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,...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2012-11-01
|
| Series: | Revista de Estudos da Linguagem |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/relin/article/view/2430 |
| _version_ | 1818322372849041408 |
|---|---|
| author | Fábio Bonfim Duarte Mário Alexandre Garcia |
| author_facet | Fábio Bonfim Duarte Mário Alexandre Garcia |
| author_sort | Fábio Bonfim Duarte |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | 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, we propose that the enclitic particle [.ke] may bedescribed as the (absolutive) Case and thematic role assignment toobject and to subject of unaccusative verbs. We also postulate that thecausative prefix {mu- ~ m-}, which occurs in ergative predicates, is themorphological manifestation of the light verb. Finally, we propose toextend the obligatory Case parameter in order to explain the split Casesystem of the Ka’apor. Thus, we suggest that Spec-TP is activated forassigning the (nominative-absolutive) structural Case to the subjectsof active transitive, unergative and unaccusative verbs and Spec-vP isactivated for assigning the absolutive Case to the object and to the subjectof stative verbs. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-13T10:55:45Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-99d4ab978c7546c3b01280f91b8d7ab9 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 0104-0588 2237-2083 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-13T10:55:45Z |
| publishDate | 2012-11-01 |
| publisher | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Revista de Estudos da Linguagem |
| spelling | doaj.art-99d4ab978c7546c3b01280f91b8d7ab92022-12-21T23:49:35ZengUniversidade Federal de Minas GeraisRevista de Estudos da Linguagem0104-05882237-20832012-11-011422128Ergatividade cindida, papel temático e causativização na língua Ka’aporFábio Bonfim DuarteMário Alexandre GarciaThis 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, we propose that the enclitic particle [.ke] may bedescribed as the (absolutive) Case and thematic role assignment toobject and to subject of unaccusative verbs. We also postulate that thecausative prefix {mu- ~ m-}, which occurs in ergative predicates, is themorphological manifestation of the light verb. Finally, we propose toextend the obligatory Case parameter in order to explain the split Casesystem of the Ka’apor. Thus, we suggest that Spec-TP is activated forassigning the (nominative-absolutive) structural Case to the subjectsof active transitive, unergative and unaccusative verbs and Spec-vP isactivated for assigning the absolutive Case to the object and to the subjectof stative verbs.http://periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/relin/article/view/2430Split CaseTheta roleCausative verb and Obligatory Case Parameter (OCP). |
| spellingShingle | Fábio Bonfim Duarte Mário Alexandre Garcia Ergatividade cindida, papel temático e causativização na língua Ka’apor Revista de Estudos da Linguagem Split Case Theta role Causative verb and Obligatory Case Parameter (OCP). |
| title | Ergatividade cindida, papel temático e causativização na língua Ka’apor |
| title_full | Ergatividade cindida, papel temático e causativização na língua Ka’apor |
| title_fullStr | Ergatividade cindida, papel temático e causativização na língua Ka’apor |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ergatividade cindida, papel temático e causativização na língua Ka’apor |
| title_short | Ergatividade cindida, papel temático e causativização na língua Ka’apor |
| title_sort | ergatividade cindida papel tematico e causativizacao na lingua ka apor |
| topic | Split Case Theta role Causative verb and Obligatory Case Parameter (OCP). |
| url | http://periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/relin/article/view/2430 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT fabiobonfimduarte ergatividadecindidapapeltematicoecausativizacaonalinguakaapor AT marioalexandregarcia ergatividadecindidapapeltematicoecausativizacaonalinguakaapor |