Conditions on pronominal marking: List of elicitation stimuli

This list of elicitation stimuli accompanies a set of 42 video stimuli designed to study to study variation in the
patterns of pronominal marking in the non-Austronesian languages of Alor and Pantar.
All of these languages share the typologically rare trait that they mark objects or
undergoers on the verbs, rather than subjects or actors (Siewierska 2011). However,
there is considerable within-group variation as to how this is done and also what the
relevant semantic parameters are which govern the indexation patterns. For instance,
Teiwa (Klamer 2010) aligns its arguments on a nominative-accusative basis indexing
the object of many (but not all) transitive verbs. The prime factor which determines
whether a verb indexes its object is animacy (Klamer and Kratochvíl 2006, Klamer
2010). Abui (Kratochvíl 2007, 2011), on the other hand, has a semantic alignment
system, in which the undergoer is marked on the verb. In intransitive clauses, more
undergoer-like arguments are indexed, e.g., ‘He is ill’, whereas more actor-like ones
are not, e.g., ‘He runs’. Animacy plays a role in the choice of prefix for undergoers
in Abui, but is not as important and pervasive as in Teiwa.

The list of elicitation stimuli was created for the project 'Alor-Pantar languages: Origins and
theoretical impact', funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
through European Science Foundation-EuroBabel.

本诱发刺激材料列表配套于一组含42个视频刺激材料的集合，旨在研究阿洛尔（Alor）与潘塔尔（Pantar）地区非南岛语系语言中代词标记模式的变异情况。所有这些语言均具有类型学上罕见的特征：它们在动词上标记宾语或受事（undergoer），而非主语或施事（actor）（Siewierska 2011）。然而，在具体实现方式以及支配索引模式的相关语义参数方面，组内存在显著变异。例如，Teiwa语（Klamer 2010）基于主格-宾格基础（nominative-accusative basis）对论元进行配位，会标记许多（但非全部）及物动词的宾语。决定动词是否标记其宾语的首要因素是生命度（animacy）（Klamer and Kratochvíl 2006, Klamer 2010）。另一方面，Abui语（Kratochvíl 2007, 2011）具有语义配位系统（semantic alignment system），其中动词上标记受事。在不及物从句中，更具受事特征的论元会被标记（如'他生病了'），而更具施事特征的论元则不会（如'他跑了'）。生命度在Abui语受事前缀的选择中发挥作用，但不如其在Teiwa语中那般重要且普遍。

本诱发刺激材料列表为'阿洛尔-潘塔尔语言：起源与理论影响'项目所创建，该项目由艺术与人文研究理事会（AHRC）通过欧洲科学基金会-EuroBabel资助。