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Competition for the object status: the effects of referential factors in derived and non-derived ditransitive verbs in Mojeño Trinitario

F. Rose

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This paper investigates the effects of referential factors (more specifically the person hierarchy) in non-derived and derived three-participant constructions of Mojeño Trinitario, an Arawak language of Bolivia. The basic effect of referential properties in the three-participant constructions is that only one object may be indexed on the verb, and it is has to be a speech act participant. Referential factors thus indirectly create a competition between the two non-agentive arguments for the object status. The person value of the two non-agentive arguments is thus conditioning a construction split between a double-object and an indirective alignment based on a semantic role hierarchy P / T > R / Causee. Differences along four tests of objecthood can be observed among the three types of three-participant constructions (ditransitive verb 'give', causativized and applicative-marked monotransitive roots). The clearest conclusion is that derived ditransitive verbs do not behave like non-derived three-participant verbs.
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hal-01200709 , version 1 (17-09-2015)

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F. Rose. Competition for the object status: the effects of referential factors in derived and non-derived ditransitive verbs in Mojeño Trinitario. Linguistic Discovery, 2012, 10 (3), pp.17-37. ⟨hal-01200709⟩
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