INVESTIGADORES
VIDAL Alejandra Silvia
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Reciprocals in Pilagá
Autor/es:
VIDAL, ALEJANDRA
Lugar:
Portland
Reunión:
Congreso; Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting; 2009
Institución organizadora:
Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas.
Resumen:
This paper considers reciprocals in Pilagá, a Guaykuruan language spokenin the Chaco region of Argentina. Its purpose is double: a) describe the strategy for encoding a reciprocal in (and how is this grammaticalized into Pilagá morphosyntax) and b) explain it as a valency-reducing strategy in a semantically-aligned language. Switching from transitive to intransitive in association with a reciprocal marking is widespread. Thus the question that raises is how a switch to inactive marking relates to ‘valency’/‘reciprocity’. Here we will discuss the fact that in Pilagá it is the adaptation of a very common valency-increasing method to an active/inactive language.