Subject and agentivity in Teotitlán Zapotec

IF 0.5 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Studies in Language Pub Date : 2020-11-17 DOI:10.1075/sl.18025.uch

Hiroto Uchihara, Ambrocio Gutiérrez

引用次数: 4

Abstract

Abstract In Teotitlan Zapotec, some, but not all, verbs undergo stem alternation in the 1st person forms, in addition to the attachment of the pronominal enclitics that encode the subject argument. We argue that stem alternation and pronominal cliticization are independent from one another and that each encodes different grammatical features, agent and subject, respectively. The phenomenon discussed in this paper is peculiar in two respects. First, stem alternation as the exponent of the agent is cross-linguistically rare (although it is common within the Otomanguean languages). Furthermore, the category of agentivity has not been studied in detail in Zapotecan languages, but this paper shows the pervasiveness of agentivity in the Teotitlan Zapotec grammar.

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主体和代理在Teotitlán萨波特克

在《特奥蒂特兰·萨波特克》中，一些(但不是全部)动词在第一人称形式中经历了词干交替，此外还有代词的附加形式，用于编码主语的论点。我们认为词干交替和代词修饰是相互独立的，它们各自编码不同的语法特征，分别是主体和主体。本文所讨论的现象在两个方面是特殊的。首先，作为代理指数的词干交替在跨语言中是罕见的(尽管在欧托曼语中很常见)。此外，在萨波特克语中，能动性的范畴还没有得到详细的研究，但本文显示了能动性在特奥蒂特兰萨波特克语语法中的普遍存在。

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期刊介绍： Studies in Language provides a forum for the discussion of issues in contemporary linguistics from discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspectives. Areas of central concern are: discourse grammar; syntactic, morphological and semantic universals; pragmatics; grammaticalization and grammaticalization theory; and the description of problems in individual languages from a discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspective. Special emphasis is placed on works which contribute to the development of discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological theory and which explore the application of empirical methodology to the analysis of grammar.