Cover not available
Part of
Nominalization in Languages of the Americas
Edited by Roberto Zariquiey, Masayoshi Shibatani and David W. Fleck
[Typological Studies in Language 124] 2019
► pp. 557–589

Chapter 16
Lexicalized nominalized clauses in Matses (Panoan)

| American Museum of Natural History

Nominalization is ubiquitous in the Matses language. Many functions that are performed by relative and adverbial clauses in other languages are accomplished by nominalization in Matses. Verbs are nominalized by attaching one of 27 different suffixes to the verb stem in place of inflectional morphology, creating either a word that falls into the noun lexical category, or a multi-word nominalizations which I call here a “nominalized clause.” Matses nominalized clauses, rather than being noun phrases built up around a de-verbalized noun, have essentially main-clause syntax, including main-clause case-marking frame. The present paper describes the internal and external syntax of Matses nominalized clauses in comparison to simple lexicalized nominalized words. Of particular interest is that nominalized clauses can become lexicalized.

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Overview of nominalization in Matses
    • 2.1Parameters of nominalization in Matses
    • 2.2Action nominalizations vs. participant nominalizations
    • 2.3Inventory of nominalizing suffixes
  • 3.Basic features of Matses grammar essential for analyzing nominalizations
  • 4.Grammar of nominalized clauses
    • 4.1Internal syntax
    • 4.2External syntax
    • 4.3Relativization
    • 4.4Summary of grammatical differences between types of nominalizations
  • 5.Lexicalized nominalized clauses
    • 5.1Internal grammar
    • 5.2External grammar
    • 5.3Inventory of lexicalized nominalizations
  • 6.Discussion
    • 6.1A comparison with English nominalization
    • 6.2Lexicalization paths
  • Morpheme gloss abbreviations:
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 8 August 2019
DOI logo
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.124.16fle
References
Fleck, David W.
2001 Culture-specific notions of causation in Matses grammar. Journal de la Société des Américanistes 87: 177–196.Google Scholar
2002 Causation in Matses (Panoan, Amazonian Peru). In The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation [Typological Studies in Language 48], Masayoshi Shibatani (ed.), 373–415. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2003 A grammar of Matses. PhD dissertation, Rice University.Google Scholar
2006a Antipassive in Matses. Studies in Language 30(3): 541–573. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2006b Body-part prefixes in Matses: Derivation or noun incorporation? International Journal of American Linguistics 72(1): 59–96. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2006c Complement clause type and complementation strategies in Matses. In Complementation: A Cross-linguistic Typology, Robert M. W. Dixon & Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds), 224–244. Oxford: OUP.Google Scholar
2007 Evidentiality and double tense in Matses. Language 83(3): 589–614. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2008 Coreferential fourth-person pronouns in Matses. International Journal of American Linguistics 74(3): 279–311. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
2013 Panoan languages and linguistics. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 99.Google Scholar
Fleck, David W., Uaquí Bëso, Fernando Shoque & Jiménez Huanán, Daniel Manquid
2012 Diccionario Matsés-Castellano, con Índice Alfabético Castellano-Matsés e Índice Semántico Castellano-Matsés. Iquitos: Tierra Nueva Editores. < [URL] > Google Scholar
Jiménez Huanán, Daniel Manquid
2014 Cun Nidaidën Icquid Podo Choquido: Aves de Mi Tierra. Lima: UNICEF. < [URL] > Google Scholar