Difference between revisions of "Mixe and English/Contrastive Grammar"
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| + | In Mixe, the order of subject, object, and agent arguments is relatively free compared to in English. | ||
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| + | Most common word orders in Mixe: | ||
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| + | *V (with the subject or agent not explicit) | ||
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| + | For verbs with two explicit arguments, both SOV and OSV are common. S and O are distinguished by verb morphology, not by argument order. | ||
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| + | In English, on the other hand, clauses are often SVO, and argument order distinguishes between types of arguments. | ||
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Revision as of 22:25, 12 May 2022
Grammatical differences
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very different grammatical tags on verbs
| mto | eng |
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| aspect: <icpl>, <cpl>, <irr> | tense: <pres>, <past>, etc. |
| independent vs. dependent predicates; <idt>, <dep> | -- |
| person is always marked with a prefix that agrees with the aspect suffix | person sometimes affects present-tense verb inflection |
On predicate types in mto:
- Independent predicates are part of an affirmative clause that has no pre-verbal elements that are associated with dependent clauses. Such elements include adverbs, interrogative pronouns, quantifiers, auxiliary verbs, negation, and others.
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In Mixe, the order of subject, object, and agent arguments is relatively free compared to in English.
Most common word orders in Mixe:
- SV
- V (with the subject or agent not explicit)
- OV
For verbs with two explicit arguments, both SOV and OSV are common. S and O are distinguished by verb morphology, not by argument order.
In English, on the other hand, clauses are often SVO, and argument order distinguishes between types of arguments.
