The Evolution of Argument Coding Patterns in South American Languages
Edited by Antoine Guillaume and Spike Gildea
Special issue of Journal of Historical Linguistics 8:1 (2018) v, 167 pp.
Antoine Guillaume
List of John Benjamins publications for which Antoine Guillaume plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics
Articles
2018 The evolution of argument coding patterns in South American languages The Evolution of Argument Coding Patterns in South American Languages, Guillaume, Antoine and Spike Gildea (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Introduction
This special issue of JHL reconstructs the diachrony of a number of innovations in the coding of argument structure, particularly in the domain of verbal indexation, in four Amazonian language families (Chapacuran, Sáliban, Tukanoan and Tupi). It is one result of an international workshop on… read more
2018 Chapter 6. From ergative case-marking to hierarchical agreement: A reconstruction of the argument-marking system of Reyesano (Takanan, Bolivia) Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony, Cristofaro, Sonia and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 217–256 | Chapter
This paper reconstructs the history of a set of innovated 1st and 2nd person verbal prefixes in Reyesano which manifest the phenomenon of ‘hierarchical agreement’ in transitive clauses, according to a 2>1>3 hierarchy. I argue that these prefixes come from independent ergative-absolutive pronouns… read more
2018 The grammatical expression of emotions in Tacana and other Takanan languages Morphology and emotions across the world's languages, Ponsonnet, Maïa and Marine Vuillermet (eds.), pp. 114–145 | Article
This paper studies four grammatical markers of emotions in Tacana, an Amazonian language from the Takanan family spoken in Northern Bolivia. Two markers express positive emotions, chidi ‘affection’ and ichenu ‘compassion’. The other two express negative emotions: base ‘depreciation 1’ and madha… read more
2013 Reconstructing the category of “associated motion” in Tacanan languages (Amazonian Bolivia and Peru) Historical Linguistics 2011: Selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011, Kikusawa, Ritsuko and Lawrence A. Reid (eds.), pp. 129–151 | Article
This paper deals with the diachrony of the associated motion (AM) category in the Tacanan languages of the Amazonian lowlands of Bolivia and Peru. The category of AM consists of grammatical markers that attach to non-motion verbs and specify that the verb action (V) occurs against the background of… read more
2011 Subordinate clauses, switch-reference, and tail-head linkage in Cavineña narratives Subordination in Native South American Languages, Gijn, Rik van, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken (eds.), pp. 109–140 | Article
Tail-head linkage is a discourse pattern which consists in repeating, at the beginning of a new sentence, the main verb of the preceding sentence for discourse cohesion. This pattern, which is rarely discussed in general typological work, is widespread in certain areas of the globe, in particular… read more
2010 How ergative is Cavineña? Ergativity in Amazonia, Gildea, Spike and Francesc Queixalós (eds.), pp. 97–120 | Article
This paper is an investigation of morphological and syntactic ergativity in Cavineña (Tacanan, Bolivia). Cavineña has a straightforward and consistent ergative/absolutive case-marking system, but unlike other Tacanan languages, Cavineña also has a system of pronominal enclitics in second position… read more
Associated motion, associated posture and imperfective aspect in Tacana (Amazonian Bolivia) Studies in Language: Online-First Articles | Article
This paper is the first detailed description of the exceptionally rich subsystem of verbal inflections that express imperfective aspect in Tacana, an endangered and underdescribed language from the Takanan family. The unusually high degree of elaboration of this system, which includes nine… read more