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A brief description and analysis of tense, finiteness, and verbal embedding strategies in Kadiwéu

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: In this article, we present a description of the different verbal subordination strategies in Kadiwéu and propose a syntactic structure for the CP. Although the verb is marked for person in both matrix and subordinate clauses, tense is not marked on the verb. However, complementizers may be marked for tense. Interestingly, Kadiwéu, like Danish and other languages, allows complementizer stacking. Thus, in an adverbial CP containing a topicalized subject, the complementizer nige/naGa may co-occur with the complementizer me. The Kadiwéu data come from the Tycho Brahe Platform at the University of Campinas, Brazil, and from elicited or published data.

Source: Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos

DOI: 10.20396/cel.v67i00.8677360

Authors: Maria Filomena Spatti Sandalo, Charlotte Galves

Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Award: Digital annotated corpora of Brazilian Indigenous languages with automatic translations (DACILAT)