Difference between revisions of "Mixe and English/Contrastive Grammar"
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* 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. | * 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. | In Mixe, the order of subject, object, and agent arguments is relatively free compared to in English. | ||
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In English, on the other hand, clauses are often SVO, and argument order distinguishes between types of arguments. | 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 21:37, 12 May 2022
Contents
Grammatical differences
1 & 2
very different grammatical tags on verbs
| mto | eng |
|---|---|
| aspect: <icpl>, <cpl>, <irr> | tense: <pres>, <past>, etc. |
| independent vs. dependent predicates; <idt>, <dep> | -- |
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.
3 & 4
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.
order of verb arguments
explicit vs. non-explicit arguments
4
In Mixe, possession is marked with a prefix on the possessed noun. In English, it's marked with a possessive determiner.
