On the Morphosyntax of Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4559372
AutoresFederico Zúñiga (0000-0002-9015-6601, University of Bern, autor correspondente), Fernando Zúñiga
Ano2017
Volume83
Fascículo1
Páginas111-139
Data de publicação2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/689548
OpenAlexW2566650014
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas39

Boas (1917) mentioned several phenomena found in the morphosyntax of Amerindian languages (including nominal incorporation and lexical affixation) that posed challenges to accepted views of synchronic and typological issues raised by genealogical relatedness and areal convergence on the continent, morpheme classes like roots, stems, and affixes in languages in general, and whether the fundamental unit of human speech is the word or the sentence. A century later, and despite the increased amount of data available and a substantial amount of theorizing on morphosyntactic issues, these challenges have proved considerably recalcitrant. Framed in terms of morpheme types, word domains, and word classes, this article surveys the progress since Boas’s introductory paper and examines open questions in the study of the morphosyntax of indigenous languages of the Americas

Indigenous · Linguistics · Morpheme · Part of speech · Sentence · Word (group theory · Word formation · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation