Enrique L Palancar
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 798954 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Enrique L Palancar |
| PRENOMES | Enrique L |
| SOBRENOME | Palancar |
| ASSINATURA | PALANCAR E L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Autonomous University of Queretaro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6967-2863 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
La Cruz
El matlatzinca, una lengua originaria de México de la familia otopame, es hablada en San Francisco Oxtotilpan por aproximadamente 1 250 personas. Este artículo presenta y analiza un texto ritual matlatzinca al que nos referimos como “La Cruz”, y que consideramos un ejemplo sobresaliente de una práctica ritual del lenguaje en matlatzinca que se conoce como “choyatá”, traducible como ‘(el arte del) convencimiento’. El “choyatá” es un tipo de arte v…
Inflection class interactions and valency changes in Matlatzinca
In this paper, we explore how changes in the inflection class membership of verbs in Matlatzinca (Oto-Pamean, Oto-Manguean, Mexico) lead to changes in both their valency and meaning. In Matlatzinca, verbs often exhibit multiple class membership so that a given verb may be inflected as transitive in one class but as intransitive in another. For instance, the verb chun+ta , when inflected in different classes, can encompass diverse meanings: the ac…
Headless relative clauses with a gap
This paper has two main goals. One is to introduce a type of “headless” (or “antecedentless”) relative clause that presents a gap strategy and that has not been sufficiently discussed in the typological literature. The other is to show that this type of headless relative clause with a gap is a characteristic trait of Mesoamerican languages, since it exists in many languages of the Mesoamerican linguistic area as an important constructional option…
The Conjugations of Matlatzinca
International audience
Paradigmatic structure in the tonal inflection of Amuzgo
Paradigmatic restructuring and the diachrony of stem alternations in Chichimec
Stem alternations contribute a unique type of morphological complexity to inflectional systems (Baerman et al. 2015), but despite the fact that they can show remarkable stability over time (Maiden 2018), the manner in which they are maintained and the types of changes they undergo are still poorly understood, in particular when it comes to understudied languages for which diachronic data are usually nonexistent. The verbal inflection of Chichimec…
Inflectional Complexity And Verb Classes In Chichimec
In this chapter, we propose that in the inflectional morphology of Chichimec, verbs can be classified attending to two different subsystems. One attending to the prefix set they select for the realization of notions such as tense/aspect/mood/polarity and person of the subject, and another attending to the type of stem alternation pattern they display. As a result of the interaction of these two inflectional subsystems, one obtains a very complex …
Inflectional Class Complexity In The Oto-Manguean Languages
In this paper we introduce the object of study of this special issue of Amerindia, the inflectional classes of the Oto-Manguean languages of Mexico, together with their most relevant typological characteristics. These languages are rich both in the variety of their inflectional systems, and in the way these are split into inflection classes. In effect, the full typological range of possible inflection class systems can be found just in this one s…
Clefts In Otomi
In this article, I study clefts in Otomi, a small family of languages of Mexico from the Oto-Manguean stock. Clefts represent an area of Otomi syntax that has not been previously reported on. I compare the clefts we find in two very different languages: Tilapa Otomi and Northern Otomi. Clefts in Otomi are based on the copular construction and have three typologically expected elements (i.e., a copula, a focus phrase, and a relative-like clause en…
The Contact Diffusion of Linguistic Practices
We examine the extent to which practices of language use may be diffused through language contact and areally shared, using data on spatial reference frame use by speakers of eight indigenous languages from in and around the Mesoamerican linguistic area and three varieties of Spanish. Regression models show that the frequency of L 2-Spanish use by speakers of the indigenous languages predicts the use of relative reference frames in the L 1 even w…
A mixed system of agreement in the suffix classes of Lealao Chinantec
The evolution of number in Otomi
Otomi (Oto-Pamean, Oto-Manguean) is a small group of languages spoken in Mexico which has emerged as a linguistic family in recent times. In this paper, I study relevant changes in the number system of the Otomi languages. These changes constitute an interesting object of study to gain a better understanding of two main phenomena: aspects of language change involving the loss of the dual number; and the constraints on number agreement restricted …
The conjugation classes of Tilapa Otomi
International audience
Nor Kamalio 'El camaleón'
The Otomi text that Enrique Palancar presents here is from the variant of the language spoken in San Ildefonso Tultepec, Amealco de Bonfil, in the southern part of the state of Querétaro. The autor notes that the variant belongs to the northwest Otomi dialect area, and is close to that of the Valley of the Mezquital. The story “The chameleon” was narrated spontaneously by Anastacia Cruz Vázquez, who was 59 years old at the time, and treats a them…
The Spanish loanword lado in Otomi spatial descriptions
Juxtaposed Adjunct Clauses in Otomi
In this article, I study the grammatical expression of “depictive” content (Schultze‐Berndt and Himmelmann 2004) (‘he arrived drunk’) and adverbial content (‘he arrived well’) in Otomi. I show that speakers of this Mesoamerican language encode both depictive and adverbial content by means of juxtaposed adjunct clauses. While this structure is widely and productively used to express depictive semantics, it shows a number of distributional restrict…
Split Coordination in Otomi
Cutting and breaking verbs in Otomi
In this article, I show that Otomi (Otopamean; Otomanguean) is a language with a high degree of lexical specification and a lack of generic verbs. This phenomenon is illustrated with the study of verbs denoting cutting and breaking events
Property Concepts in Otomi
In this article, I study the way property concepts such as ‘big’, ‘red’, ‘high’, etc., are lexically treated in Otomi, an Otomanguean language from Central Mexico. I show in detail that such concepts are not encoded as adjectives but rather as verbs and nouns. Lexemes denoting such concepts also occur in an interesting type of nominal compound. The present analysis is based on the dialect of San Ildefonso Tultepec Otomi, but the claims made can b…
Intransitivity and the origins of middle voice in Otomi
San Ildefonso Tultepec Otomi has three distinctive nasal morphemes that share a substantial number of features. The morphemes are the following: a middle marker, a detransitivizer, and a marker characterizing a closed subclass of intransitive verbs. In this article, I propose an analysis that relates these three morphemes diachronically, and links them to a common source. My analysis is able to account for both the commonalties and differences am…
Verbal Morphology and Prosody in Otomi
Verbs in Otomi (Otopamean; Otomanguean) have two distinct inflectional forms whose selection is conditioned by an interesting combination of prosodic and syntactic factors. In this article, I describe these two inflectional forms and the factors that motivate their usage. The phenomenon studied here is not common crosslinguistically, given that it constitutes a rare case where different levels of linguistic organization are significantly intercon…
Middle Voice in Otomi
In this article, I claim that Otomi has a nasal morpheme that serves as an exponent of middle voice. My data come from the dialect of San Ildefonso Tultepec, but a similar phenomenon can be observed in other dialects, so that the claims made here could be extended to Otomi as a diasystem. The study is based on a sample of 72 verbs that display the middle morpheme, a sample intended as a quantitative reference for the qualitative patterns found in…
The Origin of Agent Markers
This study shows that Passive Agent markers and Ergative markers do not always realize an unified semantic category of an Agent. The syncretisms present in the semantics of these markers point to the existence of different ways in which we can construe reference to an Initial-Energizer. Certain family traits have been found throughout the book as to what construals are preferred over others. The book was intended as a way to understand the motiva…
The conjugation classes of Tilapa Otomi
International audience
Verbal Morphology and Prosody in Otomi
Verbs in Otomi (Otopamean; Otomanguean) have two distinct inflectional forms whose selection is conditioned by an interesting combination of prosodic and syntactic factors. In this article, I describe these two inflectional forms and the factors that motivate their usage. The phenomenon studied here is not common crosslinguistically, given that it constitutes a rare case where different levels of linguistic organization are significantly intercon…
Property Concepts in Otomi
In this article, I study the way property concepts such as ‘big’, ‘red’, ‘high’, etc., are lexically treated in Otomi, an Otomanguean language from Central Mexico. I show in detail that such concepts are not encoded as adjectives but rather as verbs and nouns. Lexemes denoting such concepts also occur in an interesting type of nominal compound. The present analysis is based on the dialect of San Ildefonso Tultepec Otomi, but the claims made can b…
Middle Voice in Otomi
In this article, I claim that Otomi has a nasal morpheme that serves as an exponent of middle voice. My data come from the dialect of San Ildefonso Tultepec, but a similar phenomenon can be observed in other dialects, so that the claims made here could be extended to Otomi as a diasystem. The study is based on a sample of 72 verbs that display the middle morpheme, a sample intended as a quantitative reference for the qualitative patterns found in…
Paradigmatic restructuring and the diachrony of stem alternations in Chichimec
Stem alternations contribute a unique type of morphological complexity to inflectional systems (Baerman et al. 2015), but despite the fact that they can show remarkable stability over time (Maiden 2018), the manner in which they are maintained and the types of changes they undergo are still poorly understood, in particular when it comes to understudied languages for which diachronic data are usually nonexistent. The verbal inflection of Chichimec…
The Spanish loanword lado in Otomi spatial descriptions
Paradigmatic structure in the tonal inflection of Amuzgo
Cutting and breaking verbs in Otomi
In this article, I show that Otomi (Otopamean; Otomanguean) is a language with a high degree of lexical specification and a lack of generic verbs. This phenomenon is illustrated with the study of verbs denoting cutting and breaking events
Intransitivity and the origins of middle voice in Otomi
San Ildefonso Tultepec Otomi has three distinctive nasal morphemes that share a substantial number of features. The morphemes are the following: a middle marker, a detransitivizer, and a marker characterizing a closed subclass of intransitive verbs. In this article, I propose an analysis that relates these three morphemes diachronically, and links them to a common source. My analysis is able to account for both the commonalties and differences am…
The Origin of Agent Markers
This study shows that Passive Agent markers and Ergative markers do not always realize an unified semantic category of an Agent. The syncretisms present in the semantics of these markers point to the existence of different ways in which we can construe reference to an Initial-Energizer. Certain family traits have been found throughout the book as to what construals are preferred over others. The book was intended as a way to understand the motiva…
Verbal Morphology and Prosody in Otomi
Verbs in Otomi (Otopamean; Otomanguean) have two distinct inflectional forms whose selection is conditioned by an interesting combination of prosodic and syntactic factors. In this article, I describe these two inflectional forms and the factors that motivate their usage. The phenomenon studied here is not common crosslinguistically, given that it constitutes a rare case where different levels of linguistic organization are significantly intercon…
Middle Voice in Otomi
In this article, I claim that Otomi has a nasal morpheme that serves as an exponent of middle voice. My data come from the dialect of San Ildefonso Tultepec, but a similar phenomenon can be observed in other dialects, so that the claims made here could be extended to Otomi as a diasystem. The study is based on a sample of 72 verbs that display the middle morpheme, a sample intended as a quantitative reference for the qualitative patterns found in…
Property Concepts in Otomi
In this article, I study the way property concepts such as ‘big’, ‘red’, ‘high’, etc., are lexically treated in Otomi, an Otomanguean language from Central Mexico. I show in detail that such concepts are not encoded as adjectives but rather as verbs and nouns. Lexemes denoting such concepts also occur in an interesting type of nominal compound. The present analysis is based on the dialect of San Ildefonso Tultepec Otomi, but the claims made can b…
Intransitivity and the origins of middle voice in Otomi
San Ildefonso Tultepec Otomi has three distinctive nasal morphemes that share a substantial number of features. The morphemes are the following: a middle marker, a detransitivizer, and a marker characterizing a closed subclass of intransitive verbs. In this article, I propose an analysis that relates these three morphemes diachronically, and links them to a common source. My analysis is able to account for both the commonalties and differences am…
Split Coordination in Otomi
Cutting and breaking verbs in Otomi
In this article, I show that Otomi (Otopamean; Otomanguean) is a language with a high degree of lexical specification and a lack of generic verbs. This phenomenon is illustrated with the study of verbs denoting cutting and breaking events
Juxtaposed Adjunct Clauses in Otomi
In this article, I study the grammatical expression of “depictive” content (Schultze‐Berndt and Himmelmann 2004) (‘he arrived drunk’) and adverbial content (‘he arrived well’) in Otomi. I show that speakers of this Mesoamerican language encode both depictive and adverbial content by means of juxtaposed adjunct clauses. While this structure is widely and productively used to express depictive semantics, it shows a number of distributional restrict…
Nor Kamalio 'El camaleón'
The Otomi text that Enrique Palancar presents here is from the variant of the language spoken in San Ildefonso Tultepec, Amealco de Bonfil, in the southern part of the state of Querétaro. The autor notes that the variant belongs to the northwest Otomi dialect area, and is close to that of the Valley of the Mezquital. The story “The chameleon” was narrated spontaneously by Anastacia Cruz Vázquez, who was 59 years old at the time, and treats a them…
The Spanish loanword lado in Otomi spatial descriptions
The conjugation classes of Tilapa Otomi
International audience
The evolution of number in Otomi
Otomi (Oto-Pamean, Oto-Manguean) is a small group of languages spoken in Mexico which has emerged as a linguistic family in recent times. In this paper, I study relevant changes in the number system of the Otomi languages. These changes constitute an interesting object of study to gain a better understanding of two main phenomena: aspects of language change involving the loss of the dual number; and the constraints on number agreement restricted …
The Contact Diffusion of Linguistic Practices
We examine the extent to which practices of language use may be diffused through language contact and areally shared, using data on spatial reference frame use by speakers of eight indigenous languages from in and around the Mesoamerican linguistic area and three varieties of Spanish. Regression models show that the frequency of L 2-Spanish use by speakers of the indigenous languages predicts the use of relative reference frames in the L 1 even w…
A mixed system of agreement in the suffix classes of Lealao Chinantec
Clefts In Otomi
In this article, I study clefts in Otomi, a small family of languages of Mexico from the Oto-Manguean stock. Clefts represent an area of Otomi syntax that has not been previously reported on. I compare the clefts we find in two very different languages: Tilapa Otomi and Northern Otomi. Clefts in Otomi are based on the copular construction and have three typologically expected elements (i.e., a copula, a focus phrase, and a relative-like clause en…
Inflectional Complexity And Verb Classes In Chichimec
In this chapter, we propose that in the inflectional morphology of Chichimec, verbs can be classified attending to two different subsystems. One attending to the prefix set they select for the realization of notions such as tense/aspect/mood/polarity and person of the subject, and another attending to the type of stem alternation pattern they display. As a result of the interaction of these two inflectional subsystems, one obtains a very complex …
Inflectional Class Complexity In The Oto-Manguean Languages
In this paper we introduce the object of study of this special issue of Amerindia, the inflectional classes of the Oto-Manguean languages of Mexico, together with their most relevant typological characteristics. These languages are rich both in the variety of their inflectional systems, and in the way these are split into inflection classes. In effect, the full typological range of possible inflection class systems can be found just in this one s…
Paradigmatic structure in the tonal inflection of Amuzgo
Paradigmatic restructuring and the diachrony of stem alternations in Chichimec
Stem alternations contribute a unique type of morphological complexity to inflectional systems (Baerman et al. 2015), but despite the fact that they can show remarkable stability over time (Maiden 2018), the manner in which they are maintained and the types of changes they undergo are still poorly understood, in particular when it comes to understudied languages for which diachronic data are usually nonexistent. The verbal inflection of Chichimec…
The Conjugations of Matlatzinca
International audience
Headless relative clauses with a gap
This paper has two main goals. One is to introduce a type of “headless” (or “antecedentless”) relative clause that presents a gap strategy and that has not been sufficiently discussed in the typological literature. The other is to show that this type of headless relative clause with a gap is a characteristic trait of Mesoamerican languages, since it exists in many languages of the Mesoamerican linguistic area as an important constructional option…
La Cruz
El matlatzinca, una lengua originaria de México de la familia otopame, es hablada en San Francisco Oxtotilpan por aproximadamente 1 250 personas. Este artículo presenta y analiza un texto ritual matlatzinca al que nos referimos como “La Cruz”, y que consideramos un ejemplo sobresaliente de una práctica ritual del lenguaje en matlatzinca que se conoce como “choyatá”, traducible como ‘(el arte del) convencimiento’. El “choyatá” es un tipo de arte v…
Inflection class interactions and valency changes in Matlatzinca
In this paper, we explore how changes in the inflection class membership of verbs in Matlatzinca (Oto-Pamean, Oto-Manguean, Mexico) lead to changes in both their valency and meaning. In Matlatzinca, verbs often exhibit multiple class membership so that a given verb may be inflected as transitive in one class but as intransitive in another. For instance, the verb chun+ta , when inflected in different classes, can encompass diverse meanings: the ac…
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