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Data on apparent discontinuous NPs in the Cariban family
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Ye'kwana: iyö as 'this' or 'here'? (ctoyude-129) #68

Closed fmatter closed 1 year ago

fmatter commented 1 year ago

I am not sure about either iyö:

(ctoyude-129) Ye’kwana (Cáceres Arandia 2021)

eetö akö'tojo eetö, iyööne yanwaaka iyö yaawö  
eetö  0-akötö-tojo    eetö  iyö-:ne      y-anwaaka     iyö   yaawö   
aquí  3O-cortar-INSTR aquí  DEMin-INTENS 3-entrepierna DEMin entonces  
deict n               deict pro          posp          pro   ptc     
‘aquí vieron el instrumento para cortar, aquí en la entrepierna’
SpikeGildea commented 1 year ago

'Here (was) the cutting instrument here, [exactly this] (probably pointing) [his crotch this]'

fmatter commented 1 year ago

anwaaka is a postposition, so it'd be [in his crotch this] ?

SpikeGildea commented 1 year ago

Yes, same analysis in that the pronoun could not be referring to the owner of the crotch