Body-parts and possessive constructions in Mataguayan languages
This paper argues for the existence of an early possessive classifier *t(V)- that may have distinguished body-parts from the rest of the inalienable nouns in the Mataguayan language family. Evidence of this is the documentation of a t(V)-form or a t(V)-form series in the possessive flexional paradig...
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Oxford University Press
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/160437 |
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| Sumario: | This paper argues for the existence of an early possessive classifier *t(V)- that may have distinguished body-parts from the rest of the inalienable nouns in the Mataguayan language family. Evidence of this is the documentation of a t(V)-form or a t(V)-form series in the possessive flexional paradigms in this family. In most cases, it is synchronically reanalysed as a possessive prefix fused to the pronominal possessive prefixes, while in others, *t(V)- seems to have been fused to the root. This suggests that, in Proto-Mataguayan, there may have been only one pronominal series indexing possessor, and that *t(V)- was related to the meaning of the root. We also posit there is a relationship with a formally similar verbal prefix, which classifies agentive intransitive roots, and a presumable semantic extension of *t(V)- from body-part nouns to agency in intransitive predicates. |
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