Referring to states and events
Abstract
Complement and adverbial clauses in Movima (unclassified, Bolivia) are referential phrases that function as main-clause arguments or adjuncts. Unlike main clauses, they are consistently overtly marked for person, tense, and lexical aspect. The reason for this typologically unusual property is that the referential phrases representing subordinate clauses are obligatorily possessed, that their predicates are derived by morphemes that distinguish between events and states, and that their determiner marks temporal deixis. Subordinate clauses therefore seem to display more finiteness features than main clauses, which is partly due to the cross-linguistically common referential character of subordinate clauses combined with the peculiar referential properties of Movima determiners and the low noun-verb distinction.
En movima (lengua no clasificada, Bolivia), frases subordinadas adverbiales o de complemento son sintagmas referentiales que funcionan como argumentos o adjuntos. A diferencia de frases principales, ellos siempre contienen una marca de persona, tiempo, y de aspecto lexical. La razón por esta propriedad, que es tipológicamente inusual, es que los sintagmas referenciales que representan frases subordinadas son obligatóriamente poseídos, que sus predicados son derivados por morfemas que marcan la diferencia entre eventos y estados, y que su determinador marca deixis temporal. De este modo, frases subordinadas parecen presentar más rasgos de finitud que frases principales; esto se debe en parte al carácter referential de frases subordinadas, lo que es común en las lenguas del mundo, y en parte a las propriedades características de los determinadores en movima.
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