Periphrastic causatives in Guaicuruan languages: Mbayá-Eyiguayegui, Kadiwéu, and Qomlé’k/Toba of Western Formosa
The selection of the causativatization strategy, from a functional-typological perspective, is related to the difficulty of execution of the caused event, i.e. the spatio-temporal configuration of the causative situation, the types of events involved, and the semantic features of the causer and the...
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Facultad de Lenguas. Universidad Nacional del Comahue
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/lingustica/article/view/5035 |
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| Sumario: | The selection of the causativatization strategy, from a functional-typological perspective, is related to the difficulty of execution of the caused event, i.e. the spatio-temporal configuration of the causative situation, the types of events involved, and the semantic features of the causer and the causee (e.g. Comrie 1989; Givón 2001; Shibatani 2002). Periphrastic (analytic or syntactic) causatives are biclausal constructions in which, in general, the causative verb is encoded in the main clause and the lexical verb occurs in the complement clause or in any other type of subordinate clause. In this paper, we study the periphrastic causative constructions in Mbayá-Eyiguayegui, Kadiwéu and Qomlé’k/Toba of Western Formosa, languages of the Guaicuruan family. In particular, we describe the synchronic use of simple factitive verbs as verbs of cause. In addition, we analyze, in each language and comparatively, the encoding density of the clauses that occur in periphrastic constructions and their types. In future works, the analysis of causative periphrastic constructions will be enhanced, in comparative perspective, with areally related languages. |
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