Topics on the syntax of Kawahíva: A Tupí-Guaraní language from the Brazilian Amazon (Santos 2024)

Autor:	Santos, Wesley Nascimento dos
Data:	2024
Título:	Topics on the syntax of Kawahíva: A Tupí-Guaraní language from the Brazilian Amazon
Detalhes:	Orientação: Lev Michael & Peter Jenks Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Itens afins

• Tristes trópicos (Lévi-Strauss 1986)
• Moronguêtá : Um Decameron indígena (v. 2) (Pereira 1980)
• A presenca do branco na mitologia Kawahiwa: história e identidade de um povo Tupi (Menéndez 1992)

Acesso

Arquivo enviado pelo autor em agosto de 2024

File name	File type	Size
dosSantos_2024_Kawahíva.pdf	PDF document	26.19 MB	Info

Manage attachments

Comentários

Membros do site podem adicionar comentários sobre os recursos aqui reunidos. Para tornar-se um membro, clique aqui. Para corrigir eventuais erros nesta ou outras páginas de Etnolinguistica.Org, preencha o formulário disponível aqui. Para sugerir novas teses, dissertações ou monografias, bem como outros recursos disponíveis online, clique aqui.

Resumo

This dissertation provides a description and analysis of the syntax of Kawahíva, a critically endangered Tupí-Guaraní language spoken by approximately 560 people in the Brazilian Amazon basin. The first part of this dissertation includes an overview of Kawahíva documentation and revitalization efforts, its phonology, and a comprehensive grammatical sketch of the language.

In the second half of this dissertation, I analyze two key topics of Kawahíva syntax: clause structure and relativization. In particular, I offer an analysis of VSO word order of Kawahíva clause structure. I argue that verb-initial word order in Kawahíva results from long head movement, a type of syntactic head movement (Harizanov and Gribanova 2019), similar to phrasal movement. This analysis is supported by the hallmarks of syntactic movement in Kawahíva verb movement, including interpretive semantic effects and nonlocality. I also show that two theoretical accounts of the V1 order – Remnant VP Movement and Head Movement – are insufficient to derive the V1 order in Kawahíva. This study is the first to demonstrate that a language can use long head movement as a general principle to create the verb-initial order.

The final chapter of the dissertation investigates relativization in Kawahíva. Several languages are documented with a relativization strategy where a clausal nominalization is used as an adnominal modifier. It follows from this that relativization in these languages is achieved by nominalization morphology itself, without any additional syntactic processes taking place (Comrie and Thompson 1985; Keenan 1985; Andrews 2007; Shibatani 2009). However, I argue that characterizing these structures as nominalizations in Kawahíva is insufficient and that there is additional clear evidence that the nominalized clause also involves a distinct operation, namely relativization. Evidence for this claim will come from showing that adnominal nominalizations exhibit the hallmark properties of relative clauses (and other extraction-based constructions) cross-linguistically: i) sensitivity to island effects and ii) the formation of a long-distance dependency between the gap in the nominalization and the filler (i.e., the modified noun).

Detalhes

Arquivo enviado pelo autor em agosto de 2024

Feedback

Use o formulário abaixo para enviar-nos sugestões sobre este item, comunicar-nos problemas técnicos (por exemplo, ilegibilidade ou falta de páginas, links desatualizados, etc.) ou objeções quanto a sua inclusão. Itens marcados com um asterisco (*) são de preenchimento obrigatório.

Nome:*
Email:*
Instituição:
Comentários:*

174cacf5b3bd8afec0ae1dce7c701b4c_1725707518