In Multiple Object Constructions in P'orhepecha, Capistran offers a detailed description of double and triple object clauses in P'orhepecha, a Mesoamerican isolate with a case system lacking an accusative-dative distinction. Regarding argument realization, Capistran discusses alternating constructions and a construction split triggered by the person hierarchy. Valence-affecting operations-applicative, causative/instrumental and part-whole lexical suffixes-are examined, highlighting the person features of applicative suffixes and the complex part-whole morphology. Capistran's analysis demonstrates that in P'orhepecha most object coding properties show a neutral pattern, while all behavioral properties present asymmetries that shape a secundative pattern or PO/SO alignment. Capistran argues that the strong tendency in P'orhepecha to determine PO selection according to a thematic ranking helps explain the (un)grammaticality of tritransitive constructions.
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Alejandra Capistran Garza, Ph.D. (2010), El Colegio de Mexico, is Professor of Linguistics at Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa. Her publications on P'orhepecha cover topics on constituent order, applicatives, causatives, lexical categories, and locative descriptions (Locative and Orientation Descriptions in Tarascan, 2011).
