Abstract

GONZALEZ, Raúl Eduardo. REDEFINING CATEGORIES: SUBJECTIVE AND INTERSUBJECTIVE FORMS IN THE TOBA LANGUAGE SPOKEN IN EASTERN FORMOSA PROVINCE (ARGENTINA). Lingüística [online]. 2020, vol.36, n.2, pp.71-87.  Epub Nov 09, 2020. ISSN 2079-312X.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2079-312x.20200015.

The aim of this paper is to propose a possible better way to categorize referential elements outlined in González (2015). The distinction between 3rd Personal Pronouns and Demonstratives is not so clear in toba.

We follow the proposal of Cysouw (1997) and we postulate new theoretical categories from a cross-linguistic point of view. We discuss whether the third person exists as a category in toba and the criteria on which we identify the different pronominal paradigms. We propose an opposition between subjective elements and intersubjective elements. This research is based on a corpus composed of five hours of oral narrative texts and two hundred elicited clauses collected in fieldwork carried out in Toba communities from eastern Formosa (Argentina). The conmutation of morphemes and clauses was the main method used to analyze the linguistic data.

Keywords : pronouns; demonstratives; deixis; subjective; intersubjective.

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