MATSÉS
SUMMARY
Possessors in Matsés can participate in switch-reference, which is restricted to part-whole relations between possessors and possessed nouns. Matsés has a complex system of switch reference (SR) in which SR markers do not just track coreference of subjects, but of intransitive and transitive subjects, as well as subjects and objects. For all of these, possessors in part-whole relations can participate in the SR system, e.g. for indicating co-reference between an object and a possessor of a subject in another clause.
See also Arrernte (Mparntwe), Kakataibo.
LANGUAGE PROFILE
ISO 639-3:
mcf
WALS ID:
myr
LOCATION:
Brazil; Peru
CO-ORDINATES:
5°42'S, 73°25'W
AFFILIATION:
Panoan
EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF PIPS
- Evidence for the internal status of possessors comes from adnominal genitive case-marking on the possessor.
KEY SOURCES
Fleck, David William. 2003. A grammar of Matses. PhD dissertation, Rice University.
