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Conditions on pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages

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We examine the varying role of conditions on grammatical relations marking (namely animacy and volitionality) by looking at different languages of one family, using both existing descriptions and working with specially prepared video stimuli. This enables us to see the degree of variation permitted within closely related languages. We look at four Alor-Pantar languages (Teiwa, Adang, Kamang, and Abui), Papuan languages of eastern Indonesia. The conditions on argument marking are manifested in different ways. Those languages with syntactic alignment index objects with a prefix, those which have semantic alignment index objects and some subjects with a prefix. In 42 video clips we systematically varied animacy and volitionality values for participants in one and two-participant events. These clips were used in fieldwork to elicit descriptions of the events. The data show that animacy of the object is an important factor which favours indexation of the object on the verb in all four languages to varying 1 Sebastian Fedden and Dunstan Brown wrote the article. Sebastian Fedden, Dunstan Brown, and Greville Corbett designed the video stimuli that were used in the experiment. Gary Holton, Marian Klamer, Laura C. Robinson, and Antoinette Schapper coordinated and carried out the experiments in the field and provided the data. We would like to thank Ger Reesink for helpful suggestions about the cultural appropriateness of the video clips when he attended one of our project meetings. We would like to thank Matthew Baerman, Michael Dunn, Nick Enfield, Nick Evans, and Asifa Majid for helpful discussion about experimental setup and video clip design. We are grateful to two anonymous reviewers for Linguistics. This article was presented at the EuroBabel cross-CRP meeting on Referential hierarchy effects on the morphosyntax of verbal arguments

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Sebastian Fedden, Dunstan Brown, Greville G. Corbett, Gary Holton, Marian Klamer, et al.. Conditions on pronominal marking in the Alor-Pantar languages. Linguistics, 2013, 51 (1), pp.33-74. ⟨10.1515/ling-2013-0002⟩. ⟨hal-03602201⟩
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