Grammatical Relations in Kubeo

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Thiago Costa Chacon, Carol Genetti
Alena In Witzlack-Makerevich, Balthazar Bickel, Argument Selectors: A NewPerspective on Grammatical Relations [Typological Studies in Language], John Benjamins, Amsterdam & Philadelphia, 2019, pp. 399-432

DOI: 10.1075/tsl.123

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Chacon, T. C., & Genetti, C. (2019). Grammatical Relations in Kubeo. In A. In Witzlack-Makerevich & B. Bickel (Eds.), Argument Selectors: A NewPerspective on Grammatical Relations [Typological Studies in Language] (pp. 399–432). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.123

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Chacon, Thiago Costa, and Carol Genetti. “Grammatical Relations in Kubeo.” In Argument Selectors: A NewPerspective on Grammatical Relations [Typological Studies in Language], edited by Alena In Witzlack-Makerevich and Balthazar Bickel, 399–432. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2019.

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Chacon, Thiago Costa, and Carol Genetti. “Grammatical Relations in Kubeo.” Argument Selectors: A NewPerspective on Grammatical Relations [Typological Studies in Language], edited by Alena In Witzlack-Makerevich and Balthazar Bickel, John Benjamins, 2019, pp. 399–432, doi:10.1075/tsl.123.

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@incollection{chacon2019a,
  title = {Grammatical Relations in Kubeo},
  year = {2019},
  address = {Amsterdam & Philadelphia},
  pages = {399-432},
  publisher = {John Benjamins},
  doi = {10.1075/tsl.123},
  author = {Chacon, Thiago Costa and Genetti, Carol},
  editor = {In Witzlack-Makerevich, Alena and Bickel, Balthazar},
  booktitle = {Argument Selectors: A NewPerspective on Grammatical Relations [Typological Studies in Language]}
}

ABSTRACT

This paper describes a number of argument selectors for grammatical relations in Kubeo, an Eastern Tukanoan language spoken in the Vaupes River area in Northwestern Amazonia. The main selectors discussed in this paper are: verbal agreement, case marking, constituent ordering, causative, applicative, non-finite clauses, passive, noun incorporation and anaphoric constructions. The overwhelming grammatical pattern selects S, A, and Aditr for similar treatment in contrast to the remaining argument types; some constructions suggest a distinction between two types of S arguments, which we analyze as Sa versus Sp. The language presents the phenomenon of differential object marking, as well as analytical challenges related to non-canonical passivization and the way that animacy, referentiality and argument hierarchies correlate in the organization of grammatical relations.