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Agent case marking in Sahaptian

  • Virginia Beavert und Joana Jansen
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Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation
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Abstract

The two languages of the Sahaptian language family, Ichishkíin/Sahaptin and Nez Perce, have split ergative case marking. Only third person agents take ergative case marking, never SAP agents. The Ichishkíin system is further split: one of two ergative makers is used depending on whether the patient is a speech act participant (SAP) or a topical third person, and not every third person agent is marked. The two languages demonstrate different strategies for extending ergative case marking from only scenarios where third persons act on speech act participants, to a broader range of third person agent marking.

Abstract

The two languages of the Sahaptian language family, Ichishkíin/Sahaptin and Nez Perce, have split ergative case marking. Only third person agents take ergative case marking, never SAP agents. The Ichishkíin system is further split: one of two ergative makers is used depending on whether the patient is a speech act participant (SAP) or a topical third person, and not every third person agent is marked. The two languages demonstrate different strategies for extending ergative case marking from only scenarios where third persons act on speech act participants, to a broader range of third person agent marking.

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  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction ix
  4. Part I. Typological studies
  5. Non-aprioristic typology as a discovery tool 3
  6. Chorophorics, or the difference between place as an entity and place as a position in space 27
  7. On the diachrony of the ‘Ethical Dative’ 43
  8. Part II. Contributions to historical linguistics
  9. Biactantial agreement in the Gongduk transitive verb in the broader Tibeto-Burman context 69
  10. The dinguist’s dilemma 83
  11. Part III. TAME and case alignment
  12. Person-sensitive TAME marking in Galo 107
  13. Agent case marking in Sahaptian 131
  14. Part IV. Multi-clause constructions
  15. The Kurtöp - si construction 155
  16. Verb serialization in Ede from a diachronic perspective 179
  17. Tense-aspect morphology from nominalizers in Newar 195
  18. Part V. Functional motivation and extension
  19. Predicting reference form 223
  20. Causation as “functional sink” in Northern Paiute 237
  21. The challenge of Maa ‘Away’ 259
  22. Name index 283
  23. Language index 287
  24. Subject index 291
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.103.07bea

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction ix
  4. Part I. Typological studies
  5. Non-aprioristic typology as a discovery tool 3
  6. Chorophorics, or the difference between place as an entity and place as a position in space 27
  7. On the diachrony of the ‘Ethical Dative’ 43
  8. Part II. Contributions to historical linguistics
  9. Biactantial agreement in the Gongduk transitive verb in the broader Tibeto-Burman context 69
  10. The dinguist’s dilemma 83
  11. Part III. TAME and case alignment
  12. Person-sensitive TAME marking in Galo 107
  13. Agent case marking in Sahaptian 131
  14. Part IV. Multi-clause constructions
  15. The Kurtöp - si construction 155
  16. Verb serialization in Ede from a diachronic perspective 179
  17. Tense-aspect morphology from nominalizers in Newar 195
  18. Part V. Functional motivation and extension
  19. Predicting reference form 223
  20. Causation as “functional sink” in Northern Paiute 237
  21. The challenge of Maa ‘Away’ 259
  22. Name index 283
  23. Language index 287
  24. Subject index 291
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