Definiteness in Amwi : grammaticalization and syntax
Abstracts
Amwi, a non-inflecting Mon-Khmer language, has a 'syntactic stress' mechanism which may apply to a subject or to one or several objects. Different morphological forms of determination construct with this mechanism in order to produce definiteness values : a) third person clitic pronouns used again as clitic-determiners, b) clitic-determiners associated with indefinite pronouns or ordinal-classifiers, c) aspectual elements associated with 'verbal'uses and aspectual deictics of time nouns. A syntactically stressed lexical subject or object is obligatorily definite. Definiteness values involve the syntax of the entire sentence in different ways.
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Mots-clés :
Accentuation syntaxique, définitude d’indéfinis, déictiques aspectuels, langue non flexionnelle, oppositions déictiques 'distales', pronom de troisième personne-clitique-déterminant, schéma correlatifKeywords:
aspectual deictics, definiteness of ‘indefinites’ correlative scheme, non inflecting language, third person pronoun-clitic-determiner, ‘distal’ deitic oppositions, ‘syntactic stress’References
Bibliographical reference
Anne Daladier, “Definiteness in Amwi : grammaticalization and syntax”, Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, 31 | 2002, 61-78.
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Anne Daladier, “Definiteness in Amwi : grammaticalization and syntax”, Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes [Online], 31 | 2002, Online since 06 June 2005, connection on 18 March 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rlv/378; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rlv.378
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