Person as a tool for voice: the case of Sikuani and Katukina-Kanamari

Authors

  • Francesc Queixalós Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/sig.v26i2.30592

Keywords:

gramatical relations, voice, ergativity, Sikuani, Katukina- Kanamari.

Abstract

The  paper  examines  voice  phenomena  in  two  languages  spoken  in  tropical South  America,  Sikuani  and  Katukina-Kanamari.  Since  the  two  languages display opposite alignment properties – the first being nominative-accusative, the  second  absolutive-ergative  –,  they  naturally  have  a  passive  and  an antipassive respectively. A comparison between these systems is interesting because in spite of their highly symetric patterns, in both voice changes are primarily built on the same – and typological common – morphological tool,
namely  saturating  the  position  of  the  argument  expressing  the  agent  in  the transitive verb word with a non-referential affix.

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Author Biography

Francesc Queixalós, Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris

Pesquisador em Línbguística do CNRS, Unidade SEDYL-CELIA

Credenciado no Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística da UnB

Credenciado na Pós-Graduação em Linguística da Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Campus Guajará Mirim

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Published

2014-12-22

How to Cite

QUEIXALÓS, F. Person as a tool for voice: the case of Sikuani and Katukina-Kanamari. Signótica, Goiânia, v. 26, n. 2, p. 353–378, 2014. DOI: 10.5216/sig.v26i2.30592. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/30592. Acesso em: 1 jul. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 26 No. 2 (2014)

Section

Seção Temática

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