Possessive noun classes in Mojeño Trinitario (Arawak, Bolivia)
10h-12h
ISH, salle Elise Rivet
Conférence de :
Françoise Rose(DDL)
dans le cadre DTT : Atelier Morphosyntaxe
This presentation starts by describing the morphology and semantics of three classes of nouns in Mojeño Trinitario: obligatorily possessed nouns, optionally possessed nouns, and non-directly possessible nouns. It then goes on and present various aspect of the grammar of the languages where these classes of nouns show a different behavior, either exclusively or statistically: adnominal possession, denominal verbs, nominal compounds, noun incorporation and emergent prepositions. This is typical of Amazonian languages.