Constituency and coincidence in Chácobo (Pano)
| Autor: | Adam J. R. Tallman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Empirical hypothesis Divergence (linguistics) Computer science Communication 05 social sciences Bolivian amazon Language and Linguistics Coincidence Linguistics 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences A priori and a posteriori 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0305 other medical science Word (computer architecture) |
| Zdroj: | Studies in Language. 45:321-383 |
| ISSN: | 1569-9978 0378-4177 |
| DOI: | 10.1075/sl.19025.tal |
| Popis: | This paper provides a detailed description of the results of 24 constituency diagnostics, both morphosyntactic and phonological, to Chácobo, a southern Pano language of the northern Bolivian Amazon. While it is often assumed that misalignments across the domains that emerge from constituency diagnostics can be resolved by reference to a distinction between phonological and morphosyntactic words, I argue that this is not true of Chácobo. Divergence is at least as high within phonological domains and morphosyntactic domains as it is across them. While it is often assumed that domains tend to converge overall on a single wordhood candidate or that domain divergence is marginal, I argue that this is not true of Chácobo. I present a cluster of methodologies that assess the motivation for a word constituent as an empirical hypothesis, rather than treating it as an a priori assumption. No strong evidence for a word constituent emerges from the Chácobo data. Theoretical and methodological implications are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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