TAM marking on nominals in Chorote (Mataguayo, Argentine, and Paraguayan Chaco)

• Autores: Carol, Javier Jerónimo
• Año de publicación: 2015
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: CHOROTE; GUARANÍ.; INDEPENDENT TAM; IRREALIS; MATACOAN; MATAGUAYO; NOMINAL TAM; NOMINAL TENSE
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

This paper analyzes TAM marking in the nominal domain in Chorote (Mataguayo or Matacoan; Argentina and Paraguay). In this language, some of the verbal TAM markers also occur in the nominal domain, and at least three of them can have scope over only the nominal but not over the predicate of the clause: the distant past pe(j), the irrealis -a and the conjectural (epistemic or evidential) -t'ey. The phenomenon is analogous to nominal TAM as described for many languages by Nordlinger and Sadler (2004a) but the difference is that Chorote markers are clitics or independent words and not nominal inflectional morphemes. Regarding the distant past marker, we argue that it codifies tense and not aspect or any other category; however, it is syntactically a modifier of the verb or the noun and not a functional category Tense like the one found in the verbal domain of European languages.
Fil: Carol, Javier Jerónimo. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad Autónoma de Entre Ríos. Facultad de Humanidades Artes y Ciencias Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina