Open AccessRelaciones de complementación en toba del este de Formosa (Argentina): hacia un enfoque funcional de la subordinación
Author(s) -
Raúl Eduardo González
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.124
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 0719-3262
pISSN - 0716-7520
DOI - 10.15443/rl3019
Subject(s) - subordination (linguistics) , complement (music) , linguistics , perspective (graphical) , narrative , dependent clause , embedding , simple (philosophy) , humanities , sociology , philosophy , computer science , epistemology , artificial intelligence , sentence , biochemistry , chemistry , complementation , gene , phenotype
The aim of this paper is to analyze the complement relations in Toba of eastern Formosa (Argentina). We compare complement clauses with constructions which are called “symmetrical serial verbs”. They are two very close types of complex clauses since both share arguments, has two or more finite verbs and the simple juxtaposition of non-embedded clauses without any subordinators. This shows that the notion of embedding is inappropriate in a cross-linguistic perspective. We proposed functional definition of subordination that frees the notion of any specific syntactic correlate structure. In accordance with Cristófaro (2003) it will be argued that these phenomena should be explained instead in terms of the cognitive status of dependent SoAs, as defined by the Asymmetry Assumption. This research is based on a corpus composed of five hours of oral narrative texts and fifty elicited clauses collected by fieldwork carried out in Toba communities from eastern Formosa (Argentina).