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The Person-Case Constraint in Two Dialects of Odia
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山部 順治. - : 熊本大学大学院人文社会科学研究部(文学系), 2022
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Abstract:
The Person-Case Constraint (PCC) as a universal format of rule dictates that, if a clause contains two internal arguments, then the lower of them cannot be 1st or 2nd person. The Odia version applies if a clause contains two objective-case-marked NPs and also lacks an agentive subject, to prevent the lower one from being 1st or 2nd person (Yamabe 2014, 2018a, 2018b, 2020 ). This article reports cross-speaker variation concerning the Odia PCC. The application range of the constraint varies between two group of speakers. For some speakers ( “Dialect A”), the PCC applies if (i) the pair of objective-case-marked NPs logically stand in the subject and object relation, or (ii) they are the recipient and theme of a ditransitive verb. For other speakers ( “Dialect B”), the PCC applies in circumstance (i) but not in circumstance (ii). I attribute the cross-speaker variation to the absence (in Dialect A) or presence (in Dialect B) of the covert diathetic alternation of Dative Shift, which swaps the relative structural height of the two NPs in ditransitive clauses.
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Keyword:
801.5; agent; Dative Shift; ditransitive; morphology; personal pronouns; restructuring; South Asian language; subject; syntax; verbs
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URL: https://kumadai.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=34313
http://hdl.handle.net/2298/00045752
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