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Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada: Copula grammaticalization in Proto-Sáliban Comparison of the Mako [wpc] copulas as used in non-verbal predicates and the language’s TAME and polarity verbal morphology clearly suggests that at some stage in the language’s history, copulas grammaticalized as verbal suffixes. In this presentation, I present the possible source constructions that may have resulted in the grammaticalization of the copulas and argue that it must have occurred at the Proto-Sáliban stage based on comparable TAME and polarity data from Sáliba [slc] and Piaroa [pid]—Mako’s two extant relatives.

This is the first session of a Seminar of Phylogenetic Methods. We will discuss the basic principles of phylogenetic characters, the cladistic method, and how it relates to the Comparative Method in historical linguistics.