Abstract :
[en] In the Tupi-Guarini languages the ancestral ‘thing’ word has developed a fair number of grammatical uses, either on its own or together with other material. The paper surveys these uses and their diachronies, with respect to both general issues of grammaticalization from a ‘thing’ source or to debates specific to Tupi-Guarani languages. We first survey pronominal uses (indefinite, interrogative, and negative) and discourse particle uses. Then we turn to morphological functions serving incorporation, intransitivization and nominalization. We also deal with negative and privative functions.
Funding text :
This work was financed by the Research Foundation Flanders and is part of a larger research effort on negation in the indigenous languages of South America. Our gratitude goes to a few people, mentioned in the text, but especially to Pier Marco Bertinetto (Pisa), Wolf Dietrich (Münster), Dmitry Gerasimov (Saint Petersburg), Françoise Rose (Lyon) and Maura Velázquez-Castillo (Fort Collins, Colorado) for their most helpful and detailed comments.This work was financed by the Research Foundation Flanders and is part of a larger research effort on negation in the indigenous languages of South America. Our gratitude goes to a few people, mentioned in the text, but especially to Pier Marco Bertinetto (Pisa), Wolf Dietrich (Münster), Dmitry Gerasimov (Saint Petersburg), Françoise Rose ?Lyon? and Maura Velázquez-Castillo ?Fort Collins, Colorado? for their most helpful and detailed comments.
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