The Chichimeco system of adpositions

This paper describes the system of adpositions of úza̠ʼ or Chichimeco (Otopame, Otomangue) made up of a single element, the bound morpheme βa. It is shown that, according to its morphophonological properties, the morpheme βa can be realized as an affix or a clitic. Considering its syntactic properti...

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Autores: Hernández Chincoya, Francisco, Mora Bustos, Armando
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2023
País:México
Recursos:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositório:Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México
Idioma:espanhol
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx:article/271
Acesso em linha:https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/271
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Palavra-chave:affix
clitic
applicative
instrument
location
change of route
quantification
referentiality
locative adverbs
relational nouns
verb types
afijo
clítico
aplicativización
instrumento
locación
cambio de ruta
cuantificación
referencialidad
adverbios locativos
sustantivos relacionales
tipos de verbo
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Resumo:This paper describes the system of adpositions of úza̠ʼ or Chichimeco (Otopame, Otomangue) made up of a single element, the bound morpheme βa. It is shown that, according to its morphophonological properties, the morpheme βa can be realized as an affix or a clitic. Considering its syntactic properties, a functional overlap with applicativization is identified, since this morpheme is also used to promote peripheral participants to central participants. Semantically, the morpheme βa is related to the notions of instrument, location, change of route, quantification and referentiality. As for the development of the adpositional functions of this morpheme, the study argues that the grammatical nature of this adposition is directly related to the system of locative adverbs, relational nouns as well as locative, dispositional and motion verbs.