Conditions on pronominal marking: Video P11- fall onto log (original) (raw)

2010

Abstract

This video is part of a set of 42 video stimuli designed to study to study variation in the patterns of pronominal marking in the non-Austronesian languages of Alor and Pantar. All of these languages share the typologically rare trait that they mark objects or undergoers on the verbs, rather than subjects or actors (Siewierska 2011). However, there is considerable within-group variation as to how this is done and also what the relevant semantic parameters are which govern the indexation patterns. For instance, Teiwa (Klamer 2010) aligns its arguments on a nominative-accusative basis indexing the object of many (but not all) transitive verbs. The prime factor which determines whether a verb indexes its object is animacy (Klamer and Kratochvíl 2006, Klamer 2010). Abui (Kratochvíl 2007, 2011), on the other hand, has a semantic alignment system, in which the undergoer is marked on the verb. In intransitive clauses, more undergoer-like arguments are indexed, e.g., 'He is ill', wh...

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