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Argument Selectors: A new perspective on grammatical relations
Edited by Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Balthasar Bickel
[Typological Studies in Language 123] 2019
► pp. 433–467

Grammatical relations in Yaqui

| IIFL-Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
This paper describes a number of selectors for grammatical relations in Yaqui. The main selectors discussed in the paper include case marking, word order, suppletion, passive and valency-increasing mechanisms, control and anaphoric constructions. The study reveals two crucial aspects: Yaqui is a good example of a language where grammatical relations can be characterized as a construction-specific category, and the distinction between core and non-core arguments is essential to determine the selected argument in particular constructions.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Case marking
  • 3.Word order
  • 4.Suppletion and number marking
  • 5.Dative case, oblique arguments and adjuncts
  • 6.Double-object constructions and valence-change mechanisms
    • 6.1Three-place predicates.
    • 6.2Applicative constructions.
    • 6.3Causative constructions.
  • 7.Control constructions
  • 8.Anaphoric constructions
  • 9.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 5 March 2019
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