Predicación no-verbal

Miercoles 13 | 15:30-17:30 | Sesiones de trabajo
Sala E. Léger, ISH (sótano)
español Réunion interna
---- **This session talks about clauses where the nucleus of the predicate is not a verb word, but either a noun or an adverb.**\\ Grammatically, there are two types of clauses formed with nonverbal predicates: In the simplest case (the !!juxtaposition clause!!), the subject and predicate are juxtaposed without a copula. The !!copular clause!! is more complex, containing at least a copula and the predicate nucleus, and perhaps also an explicit subject. Functionally, Cariban nonverbal predicate constructions can code all six of the typological functions often found with nonverbal predicates: !!equative!! (identify the subject as a unique individual), !!proper inclusion!! (identify the subject as a member of a category), !!attributive!! (predicate a property of the subject), !!locative!! (predicate a location of the subject), !!existential!! (introduce the subject into discourse, or else predicate the existence/non-existence of the subject), and !!possessive!! (predicate the relation of possession between two entities, the possessor and the possessum).\\ \\ * Juxtaposition Construction * Grammar: A nominal predicate is allowed in all Cariban languages, an adverbial predicate is allowed in some, but not all * Function: * With nominal predicate: Equative, Proper Inclusion, Attributive (nominal, and so more permanent), possessive (nominalized, identifies subject as having a permanent or characteristic possession) * With adverbial predicate: property, locative, existential, possessive * Copular Construction * Grammar: An adverbial predicate is allowed in all Cariban languages, a nominal predicate is allowed in some, but not all * Function: * With an adverbial predicate: all six functions are possible * With a nominal predicate: at least equative and proper inclusion \\ * Other constructions that commonly employ copular auxiliaries * Negative * Desiderative (also, sometimes other cognition predicates) * Progressive (derived from locative predicate) \\ The session will end with a detailed look at paradigms for copulas, reconstructions for two distinct copular roots, and the use of one copular root as a source for TAM suffixes.