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When hypotaxis looks like parataxis: embedding and complementizer agreement in Teiwa
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In: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics; Vol 5, No 1 (2020); 89 ; 2397-1835 (2020)
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Teiwa, an Alor-Pantar language of the Trans-New Guinea family, has been characterized as expressing speech reports not with complementation, but with combinations of two clauses juxtaposed under a single intonation contour with no morphological indication for integration (Klamer 2010: A Grammar of Teiwa, Mouton de Gruyter). We argue, contra Klamer, that speech and attitude reports in Teiwa should be analyzed as embedding (or hypotaxis). We present evidence from intonation, syntax and semantics that speech reports are expressed by a single, monosentential structure in Teiwa with embedding of the speech report. Our results also show that purely morphological diagnostics can be unreliable for distinguishing between a monosentential or bisentential structure of speech reports. We describe several formal experiments from our fieldwork that provide more reliable tests. Our result has implications for both the ongoing theoretical discussions of clausal complementation, complementizer agreement, grammaticalization of complementizers and the historical evolution of complementation.
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complementation; complementizer agreement; embedding; Papuan; parataxis; speech reports
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URL: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.931
https://www.glossa-journal.org/jms/article/view/931
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Light-verb Learning is Light Verb-learning
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In: University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics (2020)
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On theory of mind and sequence of tense in Dutch
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In: University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics (2020)
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On the Acquisition of the Aspects in Italian
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In: University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics (2020)
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In: University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics (2020)
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On the Acquisition of the Aspects in Italian
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In: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas (2020)
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Cross-linguistic patterns in the acquisition of quantifiers
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In: ISSN: 0027-8424 ; EISSN: 1091-6490 ; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01424264 ; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , National Academy of Sciences, 2016, 113 (33), pp.9244 - 9249. ⟨10.1073/pnas.1601341113⟩ (2016)
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The Acquisition of Quantification across Languages: Some Predictions
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In: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 36TH ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, VOLS 1 AND 2 ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01109989 ; PROCEEDINGS OF THE 36TH ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, VOLS 1 AND 2, Nov 2011, Boston, United States. pp.Pages : 258-268 (2011)
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