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- Title
The reference-tracking system of Tlapanec: Between obviation and switch-reference.
- Authors
Wichmann, Søren
- Abstract
This paper presents data on the Azoyú Tlapanec reference tracking system. The system is analyzed according to a procedure where default rules for how the system works are formulated and deviations are interpreted as being licensed by different levels of grammar organization along the lines of the local-global parameter proposed by Comrie (1989). The system is compared to its closest common typological congeners, obviation and switch-reference. Although it bears more resemblances to obviation, the system is neither clearly one of switch-reference, nor, indeed, of obviation.
- Subjects
SWITCH-reference (Grammar); GRAMMAR; TLAPANEC language; LANGUAGES in Mexico; LINGUISTIC typology; LANGUAGE classification; LINGUISTIC models; THEORY of knowledge; REFERENCE (Linguistics)
- Publication
Studies in Language, 2007, Vol 31, Issue 4, p801
- ISSN
0378-4177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/sl.31.4.04wic