Chapter published in:
Verb Valency Changes: Theoretical and typological perspectivesEdited by Albert Álvarez González and Ia Navarro
[Typological Studies in Language 120] 2017
► pp. 134–164
Valency-changing operations in Yaqui resultatives
Albert Álvarez González | Universidad de Sonora
This paper describes the resultative constructions existing in Yaqui (Uto-Aztecan) and discusses the valency issues involved in these constructions. The study shows that Yaqui has five different syntactic types of resultatives: S-, A- and bivalent S-resultatives marked by the suffix -(l)a, and P- and R-resultatives marked by the suffix -(r)i. The analysis of the different valency-changing operations present in these constructions demonstrates that the -(l)a resultativization does not trigger a valency change, contrary to the -(r)i resultativization that always implies a valency decreasing operation. More specifically, it is shown that P-resultatives and personal passives exhibit a functional overlap, that R-resultatives are derived from an applicative construction, and that the bivalent S-resultative is in fact an externally possessed S-resultative that can be considered an external possession construction if the base verb is a non-derived intransitive verb root and if the possessive relation is an inanimate inalienable possession. As for the suffix -la used in A-resultatives, some evidences indicate that it is in the process of being grammaticalized as a perfect/anterior marker in Yaqui.
Published online: 30 September 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.120.06alv
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.120.06alv
References
References
Álvarez González, Albert
Anderson, Lloyd B.
Bybee, Joan L.
Bybee, Joan, Perkins, Revere & Pagliuca, William
Bybee, Joan L. & Dahl, Östen
Comrie, Bernard
Croft, William
Di Sciullo, Anna Maria & Williams, Edwin
Guerrero, Lilián
Haspelmath, Martin & Müller-Bardey, Thomas
König, Ekkehard
König, Ekkehard & Haspelmath, Martin
Malchukov, Andrej L. & de Hoop, Helen
Malchukov, Andrej, Martin, Haspelmath & Bernard, Comrie
Maslov, Jurij S.
Nedjalkov, Vladimir P
.
Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. & Jaxontov,
Sergej Je.
Payne, Doris & Barshi, Immanuel
Shibatani, Masayoshi
Stump, Gregory T.
Cited by
Cited by 1 other publications
Juárez, Cristian & Albert Álvarez González
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 05 april 2021. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.