Manifestations of ergativity in Amazonia

Queixalós, Francesc; Gildea, Spike

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“…Arsenio-EXP cortar-PAS-DEC 'yo corté a Arsenio' Para S, la selección de la marca de ABS o de EXP está condicionada por el grado de volición o de control del argumento sobre la acción (independientemente de que este sea un PRON o un N): se marca con ABS el argumento S que tiene control sobre la acción o la realiza voluntariamente (25), y se marca con EXP el argumento S que es afectado por la acción y no la controla (26). También se podría denominar esta oposición siguiendo otras denominaciones reportadas en la literatura especializada, como activo/agentivo vs. inactivo/pacientivo (Queixalós y Gildea, 2010). Este condicionamiento generalmente se asocia con la naturaleza semántica del verbo.…”

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El caso en el wounan: el sistema de alineamiento y la relación entre marcas de caso y roles semánticos

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Vásquez

2018

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En el presente artículo se expone el sistema de alineamiento del caso en la lengua amerindia wounan y la relación entre las marcas de caso y los roles semánticos, principalmente en el sistema pronominal. A partir de un corpus recogido en varios trabajos de campo, y de las herramientas de análisis de la gramática descriptiva y la tipología, se propone que el wounan presenta patrones de alineamiento de ergatividad escindida del tipo: ergativo/absolutivo-experimentante. El wounan presenta un desajuste entre algunas marcas gramaticales de caso y los roles semánticos expresados. Sin embargo, esta asimetría entre forma y función no es arbitraria, ya que son coherentes y sistemáticos los contextos sintácticos y semánticos que determinan la interpretación clara de los roles semánticos expresados.

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El caso en el wounan: el sistema de alineamiento y la relación entre marcas de caso y roles semánticos

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Vásquez

2018

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Donohue, Mark & Søren Wichmann (eds.). 2008. The typology of semantic alignment. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xvi+465 pp. (ISBN 978 0 19 923838 5) Reviewed by Geoffrey Haig (University of Kiel)The book under review focuses on languages in which intransitive subjects are not treated uniformly in terms of their case and agreement configurations. Traditionally, such systems have been discussed under labels such as 'active/stative' , 'split-S' , 'fluid-S' , or 'split intransitivity' . However, the editors introduce the term 'semantic alignment' , and the scope of the book is actually much broader than would be implied by any of the traditional labels. The sheer breadth of data covered in the book renders detailed treatment of all contributions impossible; readers are referred to the excellent summaries of the individual chapters provided in Wichmann's overview contribution, which I will not duplicate here. Instead, I will focus on the chapters of more general interest, and relate the main points to the other contributions wherever possible.The volume consists of a well-balanced collection of papers on a typologically rich sample of languages, rounded off by a common reference section, and indices for subjects, authors, and languages. There are four parts to the book: an introductory section containing four contributions on theoretical and general typological issues (Part I), followed by case studies of individual languages and language groups, arranged geographically: Eurasia (Part II), The Pacific (Part III), and the Americas (Part IV). Søren Wichmann's contribution 'The study of semantic alignment: retrospect and state of the art' introduces the new terminology ('semantic alignment'), grounds the book in its research context, and summarizes the individual chapters. Wichmann briefly traces the two major strands in the history of research on active/stative alignment: First, the holistic typologies with their Humboldtian roots and their refinement through Sapir and the later more axiomatic formulation of Klimov and associates. Second, a more contingent view, according to which alignments are construction-specific and, in principle, independent of other parts of the grammar. While the strong version of the Klimovian holistic approach to active/stative alignment is largely debunked (6), Wichmann notes certain pervasive similarities across languages with this alignment, so a wholesale abandonment of the search for correlates of active/stative alignment is probably premature. This chapter blends clarity and brevity, providing a fine overview of a very complex set of issues.

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Manifestations of ergativity in Amazonia

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El caso en el wounan: el sistema de alineamiento y la relación entre marcas de caso y roles semánticos

El caso en el wounan: el sistema de alineamiento y la relación entre marcas de caso y roles semánticos

Review of Donohue & Wichmann (2008): The typology of semantic alignment

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