出版社：Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
摘要：Iroquoian languages possess two series of pronominal markers for nouns and intransitive verbs. These are the subject/agent markers and the object/patient markers. This paper addresses the question of what determines the choice of pronominal marker on nouns and intransitive verbs in Iroquoian. I show that the pattern of pronominal marking is dependent on telicity or boundedness. I include a discussion on how telicity plays a role in the syntax of Iroquoian languages in light of Ritter & Rosen's (2001) discussion on the licensing of eventiveness. Specifically, I argue that telicity is encoded by the presence of an object delimiter, thus, accounting for the correlation between telicity and object pronominal marking.
