Cover not available

In:The Conversation Frame: Forms and functions of fictive interaction
Edited by Esther Pascual and Sergeiy Sandler
[Human Cognitive Processing 55] 2016
► pp. 277–299

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload Book PDF
authorization required

Recursive inflection and grammaticalized fictive interaction in the southwestern Amazon

ORCiD logo with link | Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil
Published online: 1 November 2016
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.55.14voo
This chapter presents fictive interaction as expressed through recursion of bound person and mood markers in two languages of the southwestern Amazon. In Kwaza (isolate), recursive application of inflectional morphemes prototypically expresses quoted speech. This “quotative” construction has grammaticalized, being used also in purposive and desiderative expressions. Similar constructions are found in neighboring Aikanã (isolate) and Wari’ (Chapakuran). It has grammaticalized completely in Aikanã, expressing future tense, probably under the influence of cultural factors. Since grammaticalized fictive interaction spread areally in regions elsewhere, the quotative construction may also represent one of the areal phenomena in the southwestern Amazon. Grammatical interference from Aikanã in the expression of future tense in Portuguese as a second language suggests that this is a realistic scenario.
References (23)
References
Adelaar, W.F.H. (1990). The role of quotations in Andean discourse. In H. Pinkster & I. Genee (Eds.), Unity in diversity: Papers presented to Simon C. Dik on his 50th birthday (pp. 1–12). Dordrecht / Providence: Foris. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Adelaar, W.F.H., & Muysken, P. (2004). The languages of the Andes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Aikhenvald, A.Y. (2002). Language contact in Amazonia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. (2004). Evidentiality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. (2008). Semi-direct speech: Manambu and beyond. Language Sciences, 30, 383–422. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Crevels, M. (2002). Why speakers shift and languages die: An account of language death in Amazonian Bolivia. In M. Crevels, S. van de Kerke, S. Meira, & H. van der Voort (Eds.), Current studies on South American languages (pp. 9–30). Leiden: CNWS.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Crevels, M., & Muysken, P. (Eds.). (2012). Lenguas de Bolivia, II: Amazonia [Languages of Bolivia, II: The Amazon]. La Paz: Plural Editores.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Crevels, M., & van der Voort, H. (2008). The Guaporé-Mamoré region as a linguistic area. In P. Muysken (Ed.), From linguistic areas to areal linguistics (pp. 151–179). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Everett, D. (2008). Wari’ intentional state constructions. In R. Van Valin (Ed.), Investigations of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface (pp. 381–409). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Everett, D., & Kern, B. (1997). Wari’: The Pacaas Novos language of western Brazil. London: Routledge. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Güldemann, T. (2008). Quotative indexes in African languages: A synchronic and diachronic survey. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
McGregor, W.B. (2007). A desiderative complement construction in Warrwa. In J. Siegel, J. Lynch, & D. Eades (Eds.), Language description, history and development (pp. 27–40). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Michael, L. (2008). Nanti evidential practice: Language, knowledge, and social action in an Amazonian society. Doctoral dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Moore, D., & Gabas, N. Jr. (2006). O futuro das línguas indígenas brasileiras [The future of the Brazilian indigenous languages]. In L. Forline, R. Murrieta, & I. Vieira (Eds.), Amazônia: Além dos 500 anos (pp. 433–454). Belém: Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Norde, M. (2009). Degrammaticalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Pascual, E. (2002). Imaginary trialogues: Conceptual blending and fictive interaction in criminal courts. Utrecht: LOT.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Voort, H. van der. (2002). The quotative construction in Kwaza and its (de)grammaticalisation. In M. Crevels, S. van de Kerke, S. Meira, & H. van der Voort (Eds.), Current studies on South American languages (pp. 307–328). Leiden: CNWS.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. (2004). A grammar of Kwaza. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. (2009). Reduplication and repetition of person markers in Guaporé isolates. Morphology, 19(2), 263–286. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. (2013). Fala fictícia fossilizada: O tempo futuro em Aikanã [Fossilized fictive interaction: The future tense in Aikanã]. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (Ciências Humanas), 8(2), 359–377. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Vries, L.J. de. (1990). Some remarks on direct quotation in Kombai. In H. Pinkster & I. Genee (Eds.), Unity in diversity: Papers presented to Simon C. Dik on his 50th birthday (pp. 291–309). Dordrecht / Providence: Foris. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. (2010). Direct speech, fictive interaction, and bible translation. The Bible Translator, 61(1), 31–40. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Cited by (2)

Cited by two other publications

Sandler, Sergeiy & Esther Pascual
2017. In the Beginning There Was Conversation: Fictive Direct Speech in the Hebrew Bible. SSRN Electronic Journal DOI logo
Sandler, Sergeiy & Esther Pascual
2019. In the beginning there was conversation. Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) ► pp. 250 ff. DOI logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 10 december 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue