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SWIGGERS, Gisela. The Coordination in Yukpa. Opcion [online]. 2007, vol.23, n.52, pp.72-84. ISSN 1012-1587.

This paper attempts to describe, from the typological perspective, the structure of coordination in Yukpa, a Venezuelan Caribbean language spoken by approximately 4.000 people in the west of Venezuela, specifically in the Perija Mountain Range in Zulia State. It is based on the definitions of Sanders (1974), Mallinson and Blake (1981) and the typology of Haspelmath (2000,2004). As supports to the study of the coordination in Carribbean languages we also considered Hall (1988), Monsonyi & Monsonyi (2000), Gutiérrez (2001), Chavier (2005) and Sousa (2005); concerning the Yukpa, Vegamián (1978), Obregón & Armato (1986) and Niño (1999). To obtain the proposed objective 80 sentences were reviewed as to conjunctive, disjunctive, adversative and causal coordinates. It was found that this language uses as conjunctive coordinators etet, etperat, eterat and the suffix -rat. The FNs and the FVs unite by way of any of these elements; the clauses, on their part, prefer the suffix -rat. As disjunctive coordinators we have waipo -rat and vepo-rat and as causal coordinator ishi. The use of the particle -rat is a common strategy to express the conjunctive, disjunctive and adversative coordinates.

Palabras clave : Yukpa; coordination; coordinator; coordinated.