Linguistic Discovery | |
The Expression of Three-Participant Events in Movima | |
关键词: transitive; referential hierarchy; Movima; | |
DOI : 10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.417 | |
来源: DOAJ |
【 摘 要 】
In Movima (isolate, Amazonian Bolivia), the structure of transitive clauses is determined by referential properties of the core arguments: the encoding of an argument depends on the relative position of its referent on a referential hierarchy. Movima has no ditransitive constructions. Three-participant events are expressed by monotransitive clauses, with one of the non-Agent participants having the status of an argument and the other that of an adjunct. In three-participant clauses there are no reference effects, i.e., there is no competition for argument status between the two non-Agent participants based on their relative referential properties. Instead, the choice of which non-Agent participant is encoded as an argument and which as an adjunct is determined by the lexical or derivational properties of the predicate.
【 授权许可】
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