The evolution of differential object marking in Alor-Pantar languages
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI
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Výsledek na webu
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1228247" target="_blank" >10.5281/zenodo.1228247</a>
Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
The evolution of differential object marking in Alor-Pantar languages
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
This paper investigates the evolution of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Abui and Teiwa, two Papuan languages of the Alor-Pantar family in Eastern Indonesia. In both languages, reflexes of the same proto-morpheme are used in the differential marking of P (the non-agentive argument in transitive constructions), but the languages contrast in the way Ps are differentiated. We compare the synchronic DOM patterns of Abui and Teiwa with each other as well as with the DOM patterns we reconstruct for their shared ancestor. We establish how different patterns of DOM in this family have evolved over time, and which semantic and morphological changes occurred in the process. In their morphological expression, there are two strategies by which P’s are differentiated: (i) the asymmetrical strategy involves an opposition between P as either a verbal prefix or a free nominal, and (ii) the symmetrical strategy where the choice of a P-prefix is variable depending on the semantics of P. Both strategies are used in both Teiwa and Abui, but the symmetrical strategy involves a choice between two different prefixes in Teiwa and five different prefixes in Abui. Different factors trigger DOM in both languages: in Teiwa it is mostly based on the inherent properties (animacy) of P, while in Abui there are many other triggers besides the animacy of P, including the affectedness relation between the action and the P referent and the inflectional class of the verb. Furthermore, Abui has developed an extra, third, formal strategy to differentiate human Ps from non-human ones in a serial verb construction. The alignment system we reconstruct for the proto-language was semantic. It evolved into an accusative alignment system in Teiwa, but was retained and further complexified in Abui. Alignment systems are not static: their forms and triggers may be modified and complexified over time.
Název v anglickém jazyce
The evolution of differential object marking in Alor-Pantar languages
Popis výsledku anglicky
This paper investigates the evolution of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Abui and Teiwa, two Papuan languages of the Alor-Pantar family in Eastern Indonesia. In both languages, reflexes of the same proto-morpheme are used in the differential marking of P (the non-agentive argument in transitive constructions), but the languages contrast in the way Ps are differentiated. We compare the synchronic DOM patterns of Abui and Teiwa with each other as well as with the DOM patterns we reconstruct for their shared ancestor. We establish how different patterns of DOM in this family have evolved over time, and which semantic and morphological changes occurred in the process. In their morphological expression, there are two strategies by which P’s are differentiated: (i) the asymmetrical strategy involves an opposition between P as either a verbal prefix or a free nominal, and (ii) the symmetrical strategy where the choice of a P-prefix is variable depending on the semantics of P. Both strategies are used in both Teiwa and Abui, but the symmetrical strategy involves a choice between two different prefixes in Teiwa and five different prefixes in Abui. Different factors trigger DOM in both languages: in Teiwa it is mostly based on the inherent properties (animacy) of P, while in Abui there are many other triggers besides the animacy of P, including the affectedness relation between the action and the P referent and the inflectional class of the verb. Furthermore, Abui has developed an extra, third, formal strategy to differentiate human Ps from non-human ones in a serial verb construction. The alignment system we reconstruct for the proto-language was semantic. It evolved into an accusative alignment system in Teiwa, but was retained and further complexified in Abui. Alignment systems are not static: their forms and triggers may be modified and complexified over time.
Klasifikace
Druh
C - Kapitola v odborné knize
CEP obor
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OECD FORD obor
60203 - Linguistics
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
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Návaznosti
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2018
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název knihy nebo sborníku
Diachrony of differential argument marking
ISBN
978-3-96110-086-6
Počet stran výsledku
27
Strana od-do
"69–95"
Počet stran knihy
553
Název nakladatele
Language Science Press
Místo vydání
Berlin
Kód UT WoS kapitoly
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