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La posesión en dos lenguas indígenas del GranChaco: toba (guaycurú) y maká (mataguayo) 1 ABSTRACTThis paper describes and compares the devices used to code possession in two indigenous languages of the Gran Chaco: Toba (Guaykuruan family) and Maká (Mataguayan family). Despite the diversity of documented strategies, both languages have similar resources for coding possession. This could be ascribed to areal criteria. Also, the total or partial symmetry between possession markers and the pronominal systems of verbs is a feature shared by both languages and defines the different roles played by the Possessor in possessive constructions.In the first part, we compare the constructions of attributive possession documented in Toba and in Maká: (a) with possessive prefixes directly attached to nouns, (b) by means of markers of indirect possession, and (c) through classifiers. This section focuses on correlations between possessor markers and the pronominal systems of verbs, as well as on the semantic role occupied by the possessor in this type of construction. The second part addresses predicative possessive constructions. By applying the notion of event-schema (Heine, 1997) for the expression of possession, we will show how certain formally different constructions present similar schemas in both languages.
La posesión en dos lenguas indígenas del GranChaco: toba (guaycurú) y maká (mataguayo) 1 ABSTRACTThis paper describes and compares the devices used to code possession in two indigenous languages of the Gran Chaco: Toba (Guaykuruan family) and Maká (Mataguayan family). Despite the diversity of documented strategies, both languages have similar resources for coding possession. This could be ascribed to areal criteria. Also, the total or partial symmetry between possession markers and the pronominal systems of verbs is a feature shared by both languages and defines the different roles played by the Possessor in possessive constructions.In the first part, we compare the constructions of attributive possession documented in Toba and in Maká: (a) with possessive prefixes directly attached to nouns, (b) by means of markers of indirect possession, and (c) through classifiers. This section focuses on correlations between possessor markers and the pronominal systems of verbs, as well as on the semantic role occupied by the possessor in this type of construction. The second part addresses predicative possessive constructions. By applying the notion of event-schema (Heine, 1997) for the expression of possession, we will show how certain formally different constructions present similar schemas in both languages.
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