The Split-S System and the Source of The Absolutive Case in Tenetehára

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  • Fábio Bonfm Duarte Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2017.v13n2a14034

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to investigate the split-S system in Tenetehára. I propose that the A and Sa subjects are cross-referenced by means of the same set of prefixes in root eventive clauses, whereas O and So are encoded by the absolutive clitics. The analysis demonstrates that this language exhibits an internal parametric variation in the sense that the Sa, So and A subjects may receive either the nominative or accusative Case, whereas objects systematically receive the accusative Case. This opens a parametric option in the sense that a higher functional projection must be activated in order to make possible the Case evaluation of the Sa, So, A and O arguments.

 

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2017.v13n2a14034

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2017-09-01

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Vol. 13 No. 2 (2017): Gerative Grammar: celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Syntactic Structures (1957 - 2017)

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