Collana |
Eurasiatica
Miscellanea | Time in East Asian Endangered Languages
Capitolo | Temporal Flow in Sakizaya Discourse: Mapping Transitivity to Rhetorical Relations
Temporal Flow in Sakizaya Discourse: Mapping Transitivity to Rhetorical Relations
Abstract
In Sakizaya (Formosan), basic clauses are interpreted as perfective or imperfective according to their morphosyntactic alignment, which is conditioned by the telicity of the event and degree of affectedness of the patient. This has implications for the distribution of such clauses in a discourse in terms of the foregrounding and backgrounding of information. This paper investigates the correlation between transitivity, voice marking and Rhetorical Relations, indicating that transitive undergoer clauses and dynamic actor clauses correlate with coordinating relations that signify temporal change while intransitive clauses correlate with subordinating relations that do not introduce new temporal reference points.
Presentato: 04 Marzo 2024 | Accettato: 24 Settembre 2024 | Pubblicato 20 Febbraio 2025 | Lingua: en
Keywords Sakizaya (Formosan) • Voice marking • Temporal interpretation • Transitivity • Rhetorical Relations
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