Zurich Open Repository and Archive University of Zurich Main Library Strickhofstrasse 39 CH-8057 Zurich www.zora.uzh.ch Year: 2010 Subordination in native South American languages Edited by: Van Gijn, Rik ; Haude, Katharina ; Muysken, Pieter Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-84759 Edited Scientific Work Originally published at: Subordination in native South American languages. Edited by: Van Gijn, Rik; Haude, Katharina; Muysken, Pieter (2010). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Subordination in Native South American Languages Typological Studies in Language (TSL) A companion series to the journal Studies in Language. Volumes in this series are functionally and typologically oriented, covering specific topics in language by collecting together data from a wide variety of languages and language typologies. 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Thompson Santa Barbara Auckland Santa Barbara Volume 97 Subordination in Native South American Languages Edited by Rik van Gijn, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken Subordination in Native South American Languages Edited by Rik van Gijn Radboud University Nijmegen Katharina Haude CNRS, SeDyL/CELIA Pieter Muysken Radboud University Nijmegen John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Subordination in native South American languages / edited by Rik van Gijn, Katharina Haude, Pieter Muysken.        p. cm. (Typological Studies in Language, issn 0167-7373 ; v. 97) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1.  South America--Languages. 2.  Language and languages--Variation. 3.  Indians of South America--Languages.  I. 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Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Table of contents List of contributors  Subordination in South America: An overview  Rik van Gijn, Katharina Haude & Pieter Muysken Subordinate adverbial constructions in Mekens  Ana Vilacy Galucio Relative clauses in Mẽbengokre  Andrés Pablo Salanova Clause embedding strategies in Baure (Arawakan)  Swintha Danielsen Subordinate clauses, switch-reference, and tail-head linkage in Cavineña narratives  Antoine Guillaume Referring to states and events: Subordination in Movima  Katharina Haude Semantic and grammatical integration in Yurakaré subordination  Rik van Gijn Subordination in Cholón  Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus Cofán subordinate clauses in a typology of subordination  Rafael Fischer & Eva van Lier Relative clauses in Ecuadorian Quechua  Pieter Muysken Participial clauses in Tarma Quechua  Willem F.H. Adelaar Complex sentences in Uchumataqu in a comparative perspective with Chipaya  Katja Hannß  Subordination in Native South-American Languages Author index  Language index  Subject index  List of contributors Willem F.H. Adelaar Rik van Gijn Centre for Linguistics Taalwetenschap P.N. van Eyckhof 2 Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen 2311 BV Leiden, Netherlands Erasmusplein 1 [email protected] 6525 HT Nijmegen, Netherlands [email protected] Astrid T. Alexander-Bakkerus Romaanse Taalkunde Antoine Guillaume Universiteit van Amsterdam Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage Spuistraat 134 Institut des Sciences de l’Homme 1012 VB Amsterdam, Netherlands 14 avenue Berthelot [email protected] 69363 Lyon Cedex 07, France [email protected] Swintha Danielsen Institute of Linguistics Katja Hannß University of Leipzig Taalwetenschap Beethovenstr. 15 Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen 04107 Leipzig, Germany Erasmusplein 1 [email protected] 6525 HT Nijmegen, Netherlands [email protected] Rafael Fischer Algemene Taalwetenschap Katharina Haude Universiteit van Amsterdam 7, rue Guy Môquet Spuistraat 210 94800 Villejuif, France 1012 VT Amsterdam, Netherlands [email protected] [email protected] Eva van Lier Ana V. Galucio Department of Linguistics and English Coordenação Ciencias Humanas/ Language Linguistica Lancaster University Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi LA1 4YL, Lancaster, United Kingdom Av Magalhaes Barata, 376 [email protected] C.P. 399 66040-170 Belém-Pará, Brasil [email protected]  Subordination in Native South-American Languages Pieter C. Muysken Andrés P. Salanova Taalwetenschap Département de Linguistique Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Université d’Ottawa Erasmusplein 1 70 Av. Laurier Est, pièce 401 6525 HT Nijmegen, Netherlands Ottawa, ON, K1N 6N5, Canada [email protected] [email protected] Subordination in South America An overview* Rik van Gijn, Katharina Haude & Pieter Muysken Radboud University Nijmegen/CNRS/Radboud University Nijmegen In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diver- sity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly different from each other (cf. Adelaar, with Muysken 2004: 2). With some notable exceptions, South-American languages have long been understudied. The Amazon basin has been called “the least known and least understood linguistic region in the world” (Dixon & Aikhenvald 1999: 1). As a result, South-American languages have often been underrepresented in typological samples and theory-developing con- tributions to linguistics. In the last decade a remarkable change in this situation has occurred: over 40 descriptive grammars of South American languages have been produced at various academic institutions all over the world, disclosing an enormous wealth of new linguistic data. This volume intends to provide a taste of the linguistic diversity found in South America within the area of subordination. The potential variety in the strategies that languages can use to encode subordinate events is enormous, yet there are clearly dominant patterns to be discerned in South America, like switch reference marking (whether or not in combination with clause chaining), nominalization, and verb serialization. However, these general contours should not be taken to mean that the linguistic diversity in the domain of subordination is limited in the area. Within each major type, there is still much room for variation. The collection of articles presented here originates from a workshop entitled Subordination in South-American languages, which was held at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and facilitated by the Center for Language Studies of the Radboud University Nijmegen in December 2007. Not all contributors were presenters at the workshop: the contributions by Galucio, Guillaume, Muysken, and Salanova were included later. *We would like to thank Robert van Valin and Spike Gildea for useful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Remaining errors are ours.