Zamucoan Person Marking as a Perturbed System

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ID21398739
AuthorsPier Marco Bertinetto (0000-0001-7977-0400, Scuola Normale Superiore piazza dei Cavalieri 7 56126 Pisa Italy, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume75
Issue2
Pages265-288
Publication date2021-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudia Linguistica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0039-3193 • E-ISSN: 1467-9582
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/stul.12163
OpenAlexW3175380293
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

This paper analyzes the Zamucoan system of Person markers: personal pronouns, verbal and possessive inflection. Comparing the three documented languages (Ayoreo and Chamacoco, currently spoken, and extinct Old Zamuco), one can reconstruct for a very ancient stage of this language family an agglutinating structure for both personal pronouns and verbal inflection, with Person and Number dealt with by, respectively, prefixes and suffixes. However, possessive inflection could not be accommodated within this system, since the noun suffix can only express possessum Number, while possessor Number has to be expressed by a dedicated prefix. This structural conflict forced the Zamucoan languages to attempt various solutions, departing from the original agglutinating logic

Inflection · Linguistics · Noun · Personal pronoun · Possessive · Prefix · Suffix · Computer Science · History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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