PARALLELISM BETWEEN DP AND CP BASED ON NOMINALIZATIONS IN TENETEHÁRA LANGUAGE

Authors

  • Quesler Fagundes Camargos Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
  • Ricardo Campos Castro Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v1i34.675

Keywords:

Tense. Case assignment. Nominalization. Tenetehára language. Tupí-Guaraní

Abstract

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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Author Biographies

Quesler Fagundes Camargos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil. Doutorando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Linguísticos da Faculdade de Letras da UFMG. Mestre em Estudos Linguísticos da Faculdade de Letras da UFMG

Ricardo Campos Castro, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil. Doutorando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Linguísticos da Faculdade de Letras da UFMG. Mestre em Estudos Linguísticos da Faculdade de Letras da UFMG.

Published

2013-12-15

How to Cite

Camargos, Q. F., & Castro, R. C. (2013). PARALLELISM BETWEEN DP AND CP BASED ON NOMINALIZATIONS IN TENETEHÁRA LANGUAGE. Revista Da Anpoll, 1(34), 393–434. https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v1i34.675