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In:Diverse Scenarios of Syntactic Complexity
Edited by Albert Álvarez González, Zarina Estrada-Fernández and Claudine Chamoreau
[Typological Studies in Language 126] 2019
► pp. 139–166

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Grammaticalization of the linking devices with ka in Purepecha

 | CNRS (SEDYL/CELIA – CEMCA
Published online: 4 July 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.126.06cha
This paper describes, in synchrony, the use, form, and position of the linking devices with ka in coordinating phrases and clauses and in subordinate clauses. This study also explores the relation between the different occurrences of ka and investigates a diachronic common source. Taking into account such parameters as weight, cohesion, and variability (Lehmann 2002), I advance the hypothesis that there have been two routes of grammaticalization. These two routes include the free coordinator ka which has given rise to a dependent marker -ka that forms subordinators, and the subjunctive mood -ka which seems to be the grammaticalization of the assertive mood marker -ka used for speech-act participants.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Basic typological characteristics of Purepecha
  • 3.Coordinator ka
    • 3.1General properties and interphrastic uses
    • 3.2Interclausal uses
      • 3.2.1Coordinated finite clauses
      • 3.2.2Coordinated non-finite chain-medial clauses
  • 4. ka used in subordinate finite clauses
    • 4.1 -ka at the beginning of the subordinate clause: Different kinds of subordinator
    • 4.2 -ka at the end of the subordinate clause: A compulsory suffix on the verb
  • 5.Conclusion: Two hypotheses about the source and grammaticalization of ka
    • Stage 1. Coordinator of two words or noun phrases
    • Stage 2. Coordinator of verb phrases
    • Stage 3. Coordinator of finite clauses
    • Stage 4. Coordinator of chain-medial clauses
    • Stage 5. Marker at the beginning of a subordinate clause
    • The specific route of the subjunctive mood
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • References
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