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[TACOL] │ “Linking events in Iwaro: Structure and dependency in clause chaining”

Séminaire 

Terrains, Analyse et COmparaison des Langues

 

La prochaine séance de notre séminaire TACOL aura lieu le mardi 14 avril de 14 h 30 à 16 h, sur place (salle de réunion 311, Campus CNRS de Villejuif) et sur Visio.

Nous aurons le plaisir d’écouter : Daniel Krausse (Lattice)

qui va parler de “Linking events in Iwaro: Structure and dependency in clause chaining”

This paper examines clause chaining and event linkage in Iwaro [Glottocode: pura1257], a sparsely documented language spoken in four villages in Southwest Papua Province of Indonesia. The language is highly inflectional, and verbs encoding up to 15 TAM categories. The analysis focuses on the interaction between structural markers and dependency relations. Iwaro employs a system of boundary markers (BMs) that play a central role in discourse organization. At the verbal level, a gendered BM signals the end of a statement in the third person (-ro for masculine, -mo for feminine and plural). In contrast, the gender-neutral BM =’a operates across phrasal domains and serves to introduce new discourse units in contexts such as tail-head linkage, adverbials, and clause boundaries.
Coordination is typically achieved through juxtaposition or the particle me, the latter frequently followed by the BM =’a. Subordination is realized through multiple strategies. The particle ei’i, grammaticalized from the negative existential marker, encodes completed events in subordinate clauses. Participial constructions marked by -‘yago link anterior events, while -rago/-dago links cotemporal events. These forms obligatorily precede a fully inflected matrix clause. Additionally, the suffix -bai marks desiderative subordination, and -rani/-dani marks conditional subordination, but both constructions also frequently occur independently, suggesting a development towards insubordination. These mechanisms illustrate a complex system in which morphology and discourse structure jointly display event dependency.

Au plaisir de vous y voir nombreux.

Pour toute demande d’information, merci de contacter Lameen Souag


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OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Balthazar Do Nascimento (7 avril 2026). [TACOL] │ “Linking events in Iwaro: Structure and dependency in clause chaining”. LES CARNETS DU LACITO. Consulté le 19 mai 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/160s3


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