@phdthesis{125459,
  author          = {Sandalo, Maria Filomena},
  pages           = {291},
  school          = {University of Pittsburgh},
  title           = {A Grammar of Kadiweu},
  year            = {1995},
  abstract        = {This dissertation provides a description and a dictionary of Kadiweu, a Waikuruan language spoken in Brazil. The Kadiweus are the only surviving descendants of the Mbaya people, who in the 18th century dominated a large extension of Brazil and Paraguay. Jelinek (1989) explains the properties of nonconfigurational languages by proposing that languages set the elements which can work as verbal arguments. According to Jelinek, pronominal clitics and affixes are the arguments in nonconfigurational languages; nominal phrases are adjuncts, and therefore they can assume free order and be omitted. This proposal has not been universally accepted, however. The existence of inflectional morphemes functioning as arguments challenges the idea of a fixed phrase structure over which syntactic relationships such as subject and object can be defined. An alternative analysis would be to say that the morphemes on the verb do not replace conventional argument phrases, but that nonconfigurational languages are nothing more than cases of obligators' pro-drop languages. Baker (1984), for instance, denies that Mohawk pronominals are arguments. According to Baker, the verbal arguments are an empty category pro that occupies the projections of the verb. Kadiweu offers evidence supporting Jelinek's hypothesis that inflectional morphemes can indeed be arguments in some languages. First, pronominal clitics and affixes co-occur with elements which are roughly like English prepositions in that they assign semantic roles:-d: 'theme'},
  adviser         = {Thomason, Sarah G.},
  bestfn          = {south_america\sandalo_kadiweu1995v2_o.pdf},
  besttxt         = {ptxt2\south_america\sandalo_kadiweu1995v2_o.txt},
  cfn             = {south_america\sandalo_kadiweu1995_o.pdf},
  degree          = {PhD},
  delivered       = {south_america\sandalo_kadiweu1995_o.pdf},
  digital_formats = {PDF 6.98Mb image-only PDF},
  filenames       = {kbc_sandalo1995.pdf},
  fn              = {south_america\sandalo_kadiweu1995v2_o.pdf, south_america\sandalo_kadiweu1995.pdf, south_america\sandalo_kadiweu1995_o.pdf},
  hhtype          = {grammar},
  inlg            = {English [eng]},
  isbn            = {9780591269437},
  lgcode          = {Kadiwéu [kbc]},
  macro_area      = {South America},
  oclc            = {38852852},
  source          = {DAI-A 58/01, p. 151, Jul 1997},
  src             = {hh, phoible},
  subject         = {LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS (0290)},
  umi_id          = {9718658}
}