THE EPIPHENOMENON OF VALENCE ALTERNATION IN TENETEHÁRA LANGUAGE (TUPÍ-GUARANÍ)
This article aims to demonstrate three different valence alternation processes in Tenetehára (Tupí-Guaraní). The first one is a process of nominal incorporation without valence decreasing. The second construction analyzed here is the antipassive voice. We show that a transitive verb can be “antipass...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Letras e Linguística
2013-12-01
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| Series: | Revista da Anpoll |
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| Online Access: | https://revistadaanpoll.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/674 |
| Summary: | This article aims to demonstrate three different valence alternation processes in Tenetehára (Tupí-Guaraní). The first one is a process of nominal incorporation without valence decreasing. The second construction analyzed here is the antipassive voice. We show that a transitive verb can be “antipassivized” when the morpheme {-pur(u)} is attached to it. Moreover, we claim that antipassive constructions are not restricted to ergative languages. Finally, the third phenomenon analyzed is the valence increasing, which occurs by means of the applicative morpheme {-er(u)}. Based on Pylkkänen’s (2002) and Vieira’s (2001, 2010) proposal, we contend that this morpheme is the instantiation of a high applicative head |
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| ISSN: | 1414-7564 1982-7830 |