Revista da Anpoll (Dec 2013)

PARALLELISM BETWEEN DP AND CP BASED ON NOMINALIZATIONS IN TENETEHÁRA LANGUAGE

  • Quesler Fagundes Camargos,
  • Ricardo Campos Castro

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v1i34.675
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 34
pp. 393 – 434

Abstract

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In this paper, we investigate the nominalization constructions in Tenetehára language (Tupí-Guaraní family) in order to demonstrate that both the DP and the CP contain the functional head To and Aspo which are responsible for encoding the tense and aspectual meaning of the sentences. Following the essential ideas of Chomsky’s (2000, 2001) proposal, our hypothesis is that the temporal morphemes that appear in DPs and in TPs can be treated as a morphological instantiations of the functional head To. They also serve as a piece of evidence that there really occurs the structural Case assignment to possessors and to internal arguments both within the CP and within the DP

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