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Participant marking: Corpus study and video elicitation

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The Alor-Pantar languages are particularly interesting for examining the relative importance of referential properties as opposed to lexical stipulation in determining pronominal marking on the verb. In this chapter we take a detailed look at the patterns of pronominal marking on verbs in the existing corpora of three languages, Abui, Kamang and Teiwa. These differ in relation to the importance of these factors. There is a continuum with event properties, such as volitionality and affectedness at one end, and stipulation or arbitrary association of prefixes with verbs at the other end. Abui is located at one end of this continuum, because event semantics play a major role. Teiwa is located at the other end, with the lexical property of object animacy as the major determinant of prefixal marking. Between these two extremes we find Kamang. We also argue that lexical properties such as animacy, as opposed to event properties, create the means for arbitrary classes to develop. We complement the corpus study with data from video experimentation using 42 specially prepared video stimuli, in which we systematically varied animacy and volitionality values for participants in one and two-participant events.
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hal-03599125 , version 1 (06-03-2022)

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Sebastian Fedden, Dunstan Brown. Participant marking: Corpus study and video elicitation. Marian Klamer (ed.). The Alor-Pantar languages, Berlin: Language Science Press, pp.403- 447, 2017, 978-3-944675-94-7. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.569399⟩. ⟨hal-03599125⟩
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