The Expression of Three-Participant Events in Movima

Linguistic Discovery

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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