Chapter 8
Are the Tupi-Guarani hierarchical indexing systems really
motivated by the person hierarchy?
Tupi-Guarani languages are supposedly perfect examples of
hierarchical indexing systems, where the relative ranking of A and P
on the 1 > 2 > 3 person hierarchy determines the selection of
the person markers. This chapter questions the relevance of the
person hierarchy as a synchronic and diachronic explanation for such
systems, with data from 28 languages. First, only SAP > 3 can
really be posited in the actual languages, and second, it explains
only part of the facts that it is supposed to account for in
Proto-Tupi-Guarani. The chapter ends by suggesting that these
systems do not result from the person hierarchy as a functional
motivation. Instead, they may result from grammaticalization of
pronominal paradigms lacking third-person forms.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The person hierarchy and hierarchical indexing systems
- 3.The Tupi-Guarani indexing systems in synchrony
- 4.The Tupi-Guarani indexing systems in diachrony
- 4.1
The Proto-Tupi-Guarani system
- 4.2The genesis of the Proto-Tupi-Guarani indexing system
- 5.Conclusion
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Abbreviations
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Notes
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