Valency-changing operations in Yaqui resultatives
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.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
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2.Yaqui language
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3.Resultative constructions
- 4.Resultative constructions in Yaqui
- 4.1Monovalent resultatives in Yaqui
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4.1.1S-resultative in Yaqui
- 4.1.2P-resultative in Yaqui
- 4.1.3Relationship between P-resultative and passive in Yaqui
- 4.1.4Triggering feature for the Yaqui monovalent resultative marking
- 4.2Bivalent resultatives in Yaqui
- 4.2.1A-resultative in Yaqui
- 4.2.2Relationship between A-resultative and perfect in Yaqui
- 4.2.3R-resultative in Yaqui and its relationship with applicative
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4.2.4Bivalent S-resultative
- 4.2.5Relationship between bivalent S-resultative and external possession
- 5.Final remarks
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Notes
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