INTERACTIONS BETWEEN VERB MOVEMENT AND AGREEMENT IN KARITIANA (TUPI STOCK)
Author(s) -
Luciana Storto
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
revista letras
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2236-0999
pISSN - 0100-0888
DOI - 10.5380/rel.v60i0.2876
Subject(s) - verb , linguistics , philosophy , infinitive , adverbial , sentence , brazilian portuguese , adverb , word order , humanities , mathematics , portuguese
Este artigo tem como objetivo mostrar que o Karitiana, uma lingua da familia Arikem, tronco Tupi, falada em Rondonia, Brasil, e uma lingua V-2, que apresenta movimento obrigatorio do verbo para a posicao de complementizador (C) nas sentencas matrizes. O verbo transitivo, invariavelmente, ocorre em primeira ou segunda posicao em relacao a seus argumentos nas sentencas principais, quando aparece, obrigatoriamente, marcado por tempo e concordância. Ja nas sentencas subordinadas, o verbo aparece nu na ultima posicao. Apresentamos evidencias de movimento verbal ao discutirmos a ordem dos constituintes, a posicao dos nucleos funcionais nas sentencas, e as possibilidades de adjuncao adverbial na lingua. Abstract This paper aims to show that Karitiana, a language of the Arikem family, Tupi stock, spoken in Rondonia, Brazil, is a verb-second language, which presents obligatory movement of the verb to complementizer position (C) in root clauses. The transitive verb, invariably, occurs in first or second position with respect to its arguments in matrix clauses, when it is marked by tense and agreement morphology. In embedded clauses, the verb is bare and occurs in final position. We present evidence of verb movement through a discussion of constituent order, the position of functional heads in the sentence, and adverb adjunction possibilities.
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