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Nominalized constructions with argument function in the languages of the Chaco: a contribution to the typology of South American languages.
Date
2019Registration in:
Golluscio, Lucia Angela; Hasler Sandoval, Felipe Daniel; de Reuse, Willem; Nominalized constructions with argument function in the languages of the Chaco: a contribution to the typology of South American languages.; John Benjamins Publishing Company; 124; 2019; 249-269
978-90-272-0244-4
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Author
Golluscio, Lucia Angela
Hasler Sandoval, Felipe Daniel
de Reuse, Willem
Abstract
The complementation strategies attested in two well-known areas, the Andean area and the Amazonian area are compared with those existing in Chaco languages, which possibly constitute a linguistic area as well. The Chaco languages examined belong to the Guaycuruan, Lule-Vilela, Mataguayan, Tupi-Guarani and Zamucoan families. While nominalization is marked grammatically in Andean and Amazonian languages, a more general dependency marker is typically used in the Chaco languages. Also, unlike nominalizers in Andean and Amazonian languages, Chaco language subordinators are not involved in lexical nominalization. Finally, parataxis is documented as an extended complementation strategy among the Chacoan languages.