The objective of the project is, besides further documenting Mapudungun (Chile, Argentina) and Blackfoot (USA, Canada), to ascertain for these two languages: (1) how "syntactic" inversion really is, (2) how the pragmatic factors determining obviation status work, exactly, and (3) how inversion works in three-participant clauses.
| Id | 150 |
|---|---|
| Grant Value | 234750 |
| Commencement Date / Completion Date | 1 July 2009 - 30 June 2013 |
| Contributors |
Prof. Dr. Fernando Zúñiga
(Principle Investigator) Alexandra Herdeg (Co-Investigator) |
| Funders | [4] Swiss National Science Foundation |
| URI | http://zuniga.unibe.ch/research/eurobabel.html |
| Publications |
Zúñiga, Fernando
(2014).
Inversion, Obviation, and Animacy in Native Languages of the Americas: Elements for a Cross-linguistic Survey.
Anthropological Linguistics, 56(3-4), pp. 334-355.
University of Nebraska Press
Haude, Katharina; Zúñiga, Fernando (2016). Inverse and symmetrical voice: On languages with two transitive constructions. Linguistics, 54(3), pp. 443-481. De Gruyter 10.1515/ling-2016-0009 Gildea, Spike; Zúñiga, Fernando (2016). Referential hierarchies: A new look at some historical and typological patterns. Linguistics, 54(3), pp. 483-529. De Gruyter 10.1515/ling-2016-0007 Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena; Zakharko, Taras; Bierkandt, Lennart; Zúñiga, Fernando; Bickel, Balthasar (2016). Decomposing hierarchical alignment: Co-arguments as conditions on alignment and the limits of referential hierarchies as explanations in verb agreement. Linguistics, 54(3), pp. 531-561. De Gruyter 10.1515/ling-2016-0011 |
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