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of Akawaio (Cariban) and Beyond
Full text linkThe aim of this paper is to give a comprehensive description of the suffix ‐pödï of Akawaio (Cariban, Venezuelan). In particular, we aim to investigate the functions that this marker can express and the grammatical status that it has in the grammar of Akawaio. This is a challenge because ‐pödï shows broad multifunctionality that has not yet been fully explored. A review of the typological phenomenon of pluractionality suggests that all the functions of this suffix can be captured within the pluractional conceptual space. In addition to mapping the functions of ‐pödï into the pluractional space, we also identify additional morphology that explains the absence of ‐pödï in the other typical pluractional functions. Finally, we give an overview of pluractional markers in other Cariban languages, with particular reference to Kari’nja
The Development of Tense Markers from Demonstrative Pronouns in Panare (Cariban)
No full textTwo synchronic tense-marking auxiliaries in Panare are derived etymologically from demonstrative pronouns. The original pronouns differed in spatial deixis, one marking proximate ('this'), the other distal ('that'). They came to be required between predicate noun and subject in predicate nominal clauses, and thus evolved into copulas. As copulas, the deixis of the pronouns shifted to time, with proximal becoming present or immediate future and distal becoming past (but also sometimes interprétable as distant future). These copulas then evolved further to become tense auxiliaries for a new generation of main clause verbs.</jats:p
External possessor constructions in Indo-European
No full textTwo external possessor constructions occur in ancient Indo-European languages: the
dative external possessor construction, and the double case construction. They both
indicate adnominal possession by means of syntactically independent NPs, and basically refer to inalienable possession. In this article, I analyze the two constructions,
describe their meaning and their syntactic properties, and review the comparative
evidence for each of them. Neither construction is uniformly attested throughout the
Indo-European language family. In addition, the dative external possessor construction seems to be quite unstable over time. Based on the data presented, I conclude
that the former can be reconstructed as an original Proto-Indo-European construction, while the latter must be regarded as a language specific construction, with different properties in the languages in which it occurs
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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