Expression of secondary predications: a depictive construction in Mbya (Tupi-Guarani)

The aim of this paper is to describe [V2-reve] secondary predicates in Mbya in syntactic and semantic terms. According to the data collected, the postposition reve, which is generally used in the languages of the Tupi-Guarani family to express relationships of company and association, has extended i...

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Autor: Baranger, Estefanía
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Revista Liames (Online)
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8671651
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/liames/article/view/8671651
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mbya
Tupi-Guarani
Secondary predication
Depictives
Manner
Tupí-Guaraní
Predicación secundaria
Depictivos
Manera
Predicação secundária
Maneira
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Sumario:The aim of this paper is to describe [V2-reve] secondary predicates in Mbya in syntactic and semantic terms. According to the data collected, the postposition reve, which is generally used in the languages of the Tupi-Guarani family to express relationships of company and association, has extended its contexts of use in Mbya as a marker for depictive secondary predications when attached to a verbal stem. Previous analysis of secondary predication and specifically of this construction in the languages of the family are scarce (cfr. Dooley 2013; Dietrich 2009). This paper provides evidence to analyze [V2-reve] in Mbya as a depictive construction (Schultze-Berndt and Himmelmann 2004; Himmelmann and Schultze-Berndt 2005) based on the fact that these reduced forms cannot be the only predicate of a sentence and they express a state of affairs that takes place during the temporal reference of the event expressed by the main predicate, mainly encoding meanings oriented to an event participant.