Grammatical relations in Mapudungun

Zúñiga, Fernando (2019). Grammatical relations in Mapudungun. In: Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena; Bickel, Balthasar (eds.) Argument Selectors: A new perspective on grammatical relations. Typological Studies in Language: Vol. 123 (pp. 39-67). Amsterdam: John Benjamins

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This article presents the grammatical relations (GRs) of Central Mapudungun
(unclassified, Chile and Argentina) as explored in terms of argument selection as
instantiated by different constructions (i.e., the coding and behavioral properties
usually discussed in the literature on alignment). The language emerges
as having an essentially head-marking clausal morphosyntax that contrasts
“subjects”, primary and secondary “objects,” and adjuncts, with two important
provisos. These GRs differ from the run-of-the-mill notions due to the difference
between direct and inverse transitive clauses (which responds to a person- and
topicality-based hierarchy of participants and allows for agentive or patientive
subjects and patientive or agentive primary objects, respectively), and to some
apparent heterogeneity shown across constructions by the two most prominent
GRs.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Linguistics
UniBE Contributor:	Zúñiga, Fernando
Subjects:	400 Language > 410 Linguistics 400 Language > 490 Other languages
ISBN:	9789027202024
Series:	Typological Studies in Language
Publisher:	John Benjamins
Language:	English
Submitter:	Fernando Zúñiga
Date Deposited:	07 Nov 2018 09:42
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:18
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/120965