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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Spatial deixis in Ashéninka Perené (Arawak) : semantics, pragmatics, and syntax of the demonstrative markers =ka, =ra, and =nta
:
semantics, pragmatics, and syntax of the demonstrative markers
Contributor:
Mihas, Elena
Published:
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 2012
Published in:
LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas, 12 (2012) 1, Seite 39-65
Description:
The paper reports on the speaker-oriented demonstrative clitics =ka ‘near speaker’, =ra ‘not in the speaker’s interactional space’, and =nta ‘far from the speaker’. It is shown that in situational (deictic) use, the most relevant criteria for the three-way choice are the referent’s spatial contiguity to the speaker, touching or direct contact with the referent, pointing with a hand or chin, and eye gaze. Apart from serving as markers of nominal definiteness, the bound forms are found to be used anaphorically, as well as to introduce new participants and mark ‘discourse-new-but-hearer-old’ information. The bound forms are also used on the syntactic levels of predication and subordination. On the predication level, =ka, =ra, =nta function either as adverbial locality clitics or modal operators, whereas in clause combining the bound forms occur as subordinating temporal or locative conjunctions.