-etü'da

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV -etü'da
Brazilian standard -etö'da
New Tribes -etö'da

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [-etɨʔda]

Suffix

-etü'da

  1. marks the verb of a subordinate clause describing the reason why or the cause from which the main clause occurred; because, since

Usage notes

Verbs marked with this subordinator use series II markers, indexing the patient (for transitive verbs) or the sole argument (for intransitive verbs). The agent argument of a transitive verb subordinated with this suffix is not indexed on the verb itself but instead found separately marked with the ergative particle -uwö.

When the subject of the main clause is coreferential with the intransitive subject of the subordinate clause, the verb of the subordinate clause must also take the reflexive prefix t-.

If the subordinate verb is plural, this suffix becomes -etükomo'da.

This subordinator may be falling into disuse in contemporary Ye’kwana speech, being replaced by a construction using the copula marked by the postposition jökkö.

Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “-etü'da”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon, pages 296, 308, 311–313
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