Language Contact and Documentation: Contacto Linguistico y Documentacion

230 P. Muysken, H. Hammarström, J. Birchall, R. v. Gijn, O. Krasnoukhova, N. Müller
Appendix 1: Example of the coding scheme adopted in the study
Language Applicative construction Are demonstratives Are there any In possessive Person and number
can change the type of related to third (grammaticalized) constructions with distinctions are
object the verb takes person pronouns? sex-markers? pronominal possessor, morphologically
without changing (realized on the is the ‘possessed’ noun conflated
valency noun itself) usually marked? (state
most frequent construction;
if depends on alienability,
state marking in
alienable constructions)
Cavinena [cav] ? c 0 a ?
Hupde [jup] 0 a 1 a ?
Pilaga [plg] 1 e 1 b 0
Trio [tri] ? e 0 b 0
Wichi Lhamtes 1 ? ? ? 0
Nocten [mtp]