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- Title
The * t-V-ce System of the Carib Languages and the Kuikuro Resultative Participle.
- Authors
Dos Santos, Gelsama Mara Ferreira; Franchetto, Bruna
- Abstract
In the Kuikuro language (Upper Xingu Carib), the construction tü-/ t-verb-i/-ti/-si/-stress is a reflex of the Carib proto-construction *t-V-ce, often labeled as a 'participle'. It is a morphological form composed of a prefix and a set of allomorphic suffixes that attach to transitive, intransitive, transitivized, or detransitivized verb stems. In this paper, the construction tü-/ t-verb-i/-ti/-si/-stress is described and analyzed as a resultative denoting a grammatically represented result of an event that is the background of a subsequent foregrounded event. We argue that, in Kuikuro, the participial verb inflection has aspectual value and we define the construction tü-/ t-verb-i/-ti/-si/-stress as participial resultative aspect. Unlike in English, in Kuikuro, an ergative language, the resultative participial forms of transitive and transitivized verb stems license their external arguments. A description of the morphosyntax, semantics, and uses of Kuikuro participial forms precedes a final theoretically based approach that departs from Embick's analysis of English participles. Our proposal for the analysis of the resultative participles in Kuikuro emphasizes the importance of this phenomenon for a comparison inside the Carib family and for ergative languages regarding the relationship between transitive resultative participles and ergativity.
- Subjects
TRANSITIVITY (Grammar); ENGLISH language; LANGUAGE &; languages; MORPHOSYNTAX; SUFFIXES &; prefixes (Grammar)
- Publication
Languages, 2024, Vol 9, Issue 2, p34
- ISSN
2226-471X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/languages9020034