Mixtec classifiers before typology
Rereading Arte en lengua mixteca by Antonio de los Reyes (1593)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22159303 |
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| Authors | Elwira Dexter-Sobkowiak (0009-0003-6426-6430, University of Warsaw), Marcin Kilarski (0000-0003-4741-8087, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6079 |
| Publication date | 2026-06-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2473-8689 • E-ISSN: 2473-8689 |
| Publisher | Linguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3765/plsa.v11i1.6079 |
| OpenAlex | W7163650280 |
| Language | EN |
In this paper we examine the description of noun classifiers in the Teposcolula variety of Mixtec (Otomanguean; Mexico) in Arte en lengua mixteca by Antonio de los Reyes (d.1603). His 1593 grammar is a valuable source of information about 16th-century Mixtec, which showed little influence from Spanish. Among its innovative features, de los Reyes described the semantic, functional, and diachronic properties of noun classifiers with a detail and accuracy that strikingly anticipates modern typological accounts
Grammar · Noun · Noun phrase · Categorization, perception, and language · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Latin American history and culture
| Highly cited | No |
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