The coding of grammatical relations in Apinaje complement clauses

Authors

  • Christiane Cunha de Oliveira Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Goiânia, GO

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/sig.v26i2.30905

Keywords:

Apinaje, person marking, grammatical relations, complementation.

Abstract

The coding of grammatical relations in languages of the Jê family displays great morphosyntactic complexity manifested in main, as well as in subordinate clauses. In Apinaje, the coding of core arguments in simple clauses combines a nominative pattern, manifested by means of independent pronouns, and an absolutive pattern, expressed by person prefixes attached to verbs. Additionally, a certain class of verbs marks core arguments with oblique postpositions, thus displaying a noncanonical pattern; complement-taking verbs belong in this category. In the context of complementation, the ergative alignment will occur depending on the correferenciality conditions between main and subordinate clause subjects.

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Author Biography

Christiane Cunha de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Goiânia, GO

Departamento de Estudos Linguísticos

Análise linguística de orientação tipológico-funcional-cognitivista.

Documentação e análise de línguas indígenas  e línguas de sinais do Brasil.

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Published

2014-12-22

How to Cite

DE OLIVEIRA, C. C. The coding of grammatical relations in Apinaje complement clauses. Signótica, Goiânia, v. 26, n. 2, p. 287–308, 2014. DOI: 10.5216/sig.v26i2.30905. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/30905. Acesso em: 17 may. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 26 No. 2 (2014)

Section

Seção Temática

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