Argument structure alternations in Tenetehára language (Tupí-Guaraní)

• Autor(a) principal: Castro, Ricardo Campos de
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Guimarães Rocha, Bárbara
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/ling/article/view/49958
• topic: Noun Incorporation; Valence alternation. Argument structure. Noun incorporation. Antipassive. High applicative.

This paper aims to describe three different argument alternation processes in the language Tenetehára (Tupí-Guaraní). The first one is a process of noun incorporation without valence decrease. The second construction analyzed here is the antipassive voice. We show that a transitive verb can be “antipassivized” when the morpheme {-pur(u)} is attached to it. Moreover, we claim that antipassive constructions are not restricted to ergative languages. Finally, the third phenomenon analyzed is valence increase, which occurs by means of the applicative morpheme {-er(u)}. Based on Pylkkänen’s (2002, 2008), Vieira’s (2001, 2010), and Camargos (2017, 2020) proposal, we contend that this morpheme is the instantiation of a high applicative head