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Chapter 13. Indirect object ‘lowering’ in San Bartolomé Zoogocho Zapotec

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San Barolomé Zoogocho Zapotec employs possession as one of the primary productive means of decreasing the number of syntactic arguments in a clause. In particular, we will examine cases where a recipient or benefactive is expressed as the possessor of a direct object (indirect object ‘lowering’ as described by Croft 1985) and where what otherwise would be considered a subject is expressed as the possessor of a direct object (the Covert Subject Construction, Avelino et al. 2004). Using data from Croft (1985) and Lehmann (1999) for Mayan languages in addition to the data from San Bartolomé Zoogocho Zapotec, this paper provides evidence for the importance of possession in syntactic means of altering argument structure in Mesoamerican languages in particular.

  • Affiliations: 1: California State University, Los Angeles

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References

  1. Aissen, Judith
    1980 Possessor ascension in Tzotzil. InPapers in Mayan Linguistics, Laura Martin (ed.), 89-108. Columbia MO: Lucas.
     [Google Scholar]
  2. Avelino, Heriberto , Foreman, John O. , Munro, Pamela & Sonnenschein, Aaron Huey
    2004 Covert subjects in Zapotecan. Paper presented at theAnnual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Boston, MA, January 2004.
     [Google Scholar]
  3. Black, Cheryl A
    1994 Quiegolani Zapotec Syntax. PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz.
     [Google Scholar]
  4. 1996 A backwards binding construction in Zapotec. Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics40: 73-87.
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  5. Butler, Inez M
    1976 Reflexive constructions of Yatzachi Zapotec. International Journal of American Linguistics42: 331-337. doi: 10.1086/465437
     https://doi.org/10.1086/465437 [Google Scholar]
  6. 1980 Gramática zapoteca: zapoteco de Yatzachi, El Bajo. México DF: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
     [Google Scholar]
  7. Chomsky, Noam
    1981 Lectures in Government and Binding. Dordrecht: Foris.
     [Google Scholar]
  8. Croft, William
    1985 Indirect object ‘lowering’. InThe Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, Mary Niepokuj , Mary Van Clay , Vassiliki Nikiforidou & Deborah Feder (eds), 39-51. Berkeley CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
     [Google Scholar]
  9. Lehmann, Christian
    1999 Possession in Yucatec Maya: Structures, Functions, Typology. Munich: Lincom.
     [Google Scholar]
  10. Long C., Rebecca & Cruz M., Sofronio
    1999 Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca. México DF: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano.
     [Google Scholar]
  11. Sonnenschein, Aaron
    2005 A Descriptive Grammar of Zoogocho Zapotec. Munich: Lincom.
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