Abstract
This paper analyzes TAM marking in the nominal domain in Chorote (Mataguayo or Matacoan; Argentina and Paraguay). In this language, some of the verbal TAM markers also occur in the nominal domain, and at least three of them can have scope over only the nominal but not over the predicate of the clause: the distant past pe(j), the irrealis -a and the conjectural (epistemic or evidential) -t’ey. The phenomenon is analogous to nominal TAM as described for many languages by Nordlinger and Sadler (2004a) but the difference is that Chorote markers are clitics or independent words and not nominal inflectional morphemes. Regarding the distant past marker, we argue that it codifies tense and not aspect or any other category; however, it is syntactically a modifier of the verb or the noun and not a functional category Tense like the one found in the verbal domain of European languages.
Acknowledgments
Part of the field research for this study was supported by the projects PICT 2010–0136 (ANPCyT-FONCyT) “Lenguas indígenas de la Argentina y países limítrofes, con especial referencia a la región del Gran Chaco”, and UBACyT 20020120100095BA “Estudios descriptivos, tipológicos y de contacto lingüístico sobre las lenguas indígenas de la Argentina”, directed by Cristina Messineo. I would like to thank my Chorote consultants of Tartagal, Lapacho I and Misión La Paz.
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