La syntaxe fonctionnelle de Coseriu appliquée à des langues Tupi de l’Amérique du Sud

• Authors: Dietrich Wolf

Title variants

EN

Coseriu’s Functional Syntax Applied to South American Tupian Languages

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

In spite of the scarce number of papers Coseriu dedicated to problems of functional syntax (Coseriu 1979, 1989), they fully agree with his general conception of semantics, especially grammatical semantics, and Wilhelm von Humboldt‘s notion of "interior linguistic shape". In this paper, Coseriu‘s principles of functional syntax are discussed with regard to publications on ergativity. It is argued that ergative languages are not, first of all, characterized by a specific case marking on nouns, but by a specific behavior of the verb and verbal categories such as voice. Phenomena of syntactical swift in Tupi-Guarani languages will also be described. First and second person pronominal objects in transitive verbal constructions are not allowed. Nominalized existential clauses are used instead.

Keywords

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active verbs; existential phrase; ergativity; pronominal objects; Tupi-Guarani language

• Publisher: Inter Litteras Research Centre, STEFAN CEL MARE University, Suceava, Romania; STEFAN CEL MARE Publishing House
• Journal: Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 16 (Semanticity, Alterity, Creativity: Building on Eugenio Coseriu’s Legacy (II))
• Pages: 55-85
• Document type: article

Contributors

author

Dietrich Wolf

• University of Münster, Germany