Revisiting split ergativity in Cavineña

The goal of this paper is to reevaluate Camp's analysis in the light of new findings about the coding of grammatical functions in Cavinena, an ergative language spoken in Amazonian Bolivia. It is shown that the peculiarities of the Cavinena pronominal system can be accounted for in a more elegant explanatory and typologically plausible way by recognizing a distinction between independent pronouns and bound pronouns and the application of a simple morphophonological rule.