Subject-Verb indexing strategies in Tukanoan languages: the codification and categorization of nominal referents on verbs

Authors

  • Thiago Costa Chacon

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26512/rbla.v6i1.21065

Keywords:

Nominal Classification. Number. Person. Indexation. Tukanoan languages.

Abstract

This paper is about the systems of indexation of subject arguments on verbs in languages from the Tukanoan Family. It is concerned with how the categories of nominal classification, person and number interact in these systems, as well as with the syntactic status of indexing morphemes as markers of agreement, correference and/or verb arguments. Tukanoan lanmguages have a rich verb morphology, which also code several modal, evidential, temporal and aspectual categories, as well as clause types (declaratives, interrogatives and imperatives). The analyses focus on the typology of nominal classification, person and number, and provides discussion of relevant functional-pragmatic issues.

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2018-12-21

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Chacon, T. C. (2018). Subject-Verb indexing strategies in Tukanoan languages: the codification and categorization of nominal referents on verbs. Revista Brasileira De Linguística Antropológica, 6(1), 239–268. https://doi.org/10.26512/rbla.v6i1.21065

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