The nature of the postpositions in Tenetehára (Tupí-Guaraní)

This article aims to provide an agreement analysis between the postpositional phrase head and its complement in the Tenetehára language (Tupí-Guaraní). I assume that, in Tenetehára, the postpositions complements move to a specifier position of a functional category above PP, in order to check the Ob...

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Autor: Castro, Ricardo Campos de
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
Repositorio:Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/28454
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/ling/article/view/28454
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Tupí-Guaraní.
Tenetehára
Adposições
Concordância
Checagem de Traços
Tupí-Guaraní
Adpositions
Agreement
Feature Checking
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Sumario:This article aims to provide an agreement analysis between the postpositional phrase head and its complement in the Tenetehára language (Tupí-Guaraní). I assume that, in Tenetehára, the postpositions complements move to a specifier position of a functional category above PP, in order to check the Oblique Case. I provisionally label this functional category as FP. Thus, at the point of the derivation in which the head Fo, which moved from Po, is in a Spec-Head relation with the FP specifier, generated as a complement to Po, relational agreement is established.