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Caribbean Northern Arawak Person Marking and Alignment : = a Comparative and Diachronic Analysis.

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Title/Author:	Caribbean Northern Arawak Person Marking and Alignment :/
Reminder of title:	a Comparative and Diachronic Analysis.
Author:	Stark, Tammy Elizabeth.
Description:	1 online resource (137 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International80-01A(E).
Subject:	Linguistics. -
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ISBN:	9780438323957

Caribbean Northern Arawak Person Marking and Alignment : = a Comparative and Diachronic Analysis.
Stark, Tammy Elizabeth.

Caribbean Northern Arawak Person Marking and Alignment :a Comparative and Diachronic Analysis. - 1 online resource (137 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation examines morphosyntactic variation and change in the modern Caribbean Northern Arawak (CNA) languages in the domains of argument-marking and alignment. CNA is the northernmost group of the Arawak language family, whose members are spoken primarily in South America. The modern CNA languages include Garifuna, Lokono, A~nun, and Wayuu, spoken on the Caribbean coasts of Central and South America. Members of the subgroup that are currently not spoken include Shebayo, Island Carib, and Taino.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780438323957Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Linguistics.
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520 $a This dissertation examines morphosyntactic variation and change in the modern Caribbean Northern Arawak (CNA) languages in the domains of argument-marking and alignment. CNA is the northernmost group of the Arawak language family, whose members are spoken primarily in South America. The modern CNA languages include Garifuna, Lokono, A~nun, and Wayuu, spoken on the Caribbean coasts of Central and South America. Members of the subgroup that are currently not spoken include Shebayo, Island Carib, and Taino.
520 $a Chapter 1 of this work introduces the CNA languages and provides background information about current language vitality and documentation status for each CNA language. In this chapter, I also discuss internal subgrouping for the branch, incorporating the results of a lexical phylogenetic study I carried out for the CNA languages. I then compare the results to earlier classications of the language family and show that my novel subgrouping proposal is well supported. Subsequently, I examine comparative morphological evidence for subgrouping and nd it to be compatible with the structure I propose. The chapter concludes with a description of argument marking and active-stative alignment in the CNA languages.
520 $a Chapter 2 examines a process of alignment change attested in the CNA languages that has been facilitated by the reanalysis of a suxal subject nominalizer employed in relative clauses as agreement morphology encoding a syntactic subject. Properties of the modern subject construction are related to properties of nominalizations cross-linguistically. Nominalized verbs in predicate position in non-verbal predicate constructions are proposed as a bridging construction in this reanalysis, and a suxal paradigm involved in encoding objects and stative subjects is shown to have provided an analogical template for the reanalysis of the nominalizer as agreement morphology for at least Garifuna. Finally, I demonstrate that the sole CNA language that does not exhibit the suxal subject agreement construction, Lokono, exhibits properties that rule out the diachronic pathway I propose for the other CNA languages---only those CNA languages that lack a copula and exhibit verb initiality developed the suxal person marking morphology examined here.
520 $a Chapter 3 investigates a shift in lexical category from adposition to auxiliary in two Northern Caribbean Arawak languages, Wayuu and Garifuna. While the emergent auxiliaries bear striking similarities in terms of distribution and argument marking---both occur post-verbally and carry prexal and suxal verbal agreement morphology---I argue that the innovation is not joint, but independent. I draw on comparative evidence from the adpositional systems of the other modern CNA languages to support my proposal. While Garifuna and Wayuu share a similar typological prole, comparative morphological evidence, along with extant knowledge of relatedness for the family, generally, suggests they do not form a subgroup independent of the other Caribbean Northern Arawak languages, providing support for an analysis where each language independently innovated its auxiliary system. As in the case of the development of suxal person morphology, properties of proto-CNA appear to have made such a development available. The change from adposition to auxiliary is typologically rare, and has not been previously described or analyzed in the literature on grammaticalization. I argue here that insubordination and analogy are the formal mechanisms that allowed for this change in the CNA languages.
520 $a Chapter 4 concludes and discusses avenues for future comparative morphosyntactic research involving the CNA languages.
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