Abstract

CAMARGOS, Quesler Fagundes. THE "VOICE-BUNDLING" PARAMETER AND FUNCTIONS OF LITTLE V IN FOUR BRAZILIAN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES. Lingüística [online]. 2015, vol.31, n.2, pp.111-129. ISSN 2079-312X.

In this paper, based on Brazilian indigenous languages, I will provide an overview of the argumentation about the different roles attributed to the vP projection. Following an initial suggestion of Pylkkänen (2002, 2008), many of the original functions of the vP have been divided between two independent projections: VoiceP and vPcause. Some languages project a bundled Voiceo/vocause, and then all functions are unified in this single projection; and others languages project Voiceo and vocause independently, and then the effects of each head can be seen separately. My goal is to review the implications of work on Kuikuro (Karib), Wari’ (Txapakura), Paresi-Haliti (Arawak) and Tenetehára (Tupí-Guaraní) for Pylkkänen’s (2002, 2008) hypothesis. In this regard, we will examine some constructions that involve passivization, applicativization, causativization, intransitivization, anticausativization, nominalization and case-marking patterns

Keywords : Minimalist Program; Functions of vP; Voice-Bundling Parameter; Brazilian indigenous languages.

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