Body-parts and possessive constructions in Mataguayan languages
This paper argues for the existence of an early possessive classifier *t(V)- that may have distinguished body-parts from the rest of the inalienable nouns in the Mataguayan language family. Evidence of this is the documentation of a t(V)-form or a t(V)-form series in the possessive flexional paradig...
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I19-R120-10915-1604372023-11-23T20:44:29Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/160437 Body-parts and possessive constructions in Mataguayan languages Nercesian, Verónica Vidal, Alejandra 2022 2023-11-23T13:07:01Z Valenzuela, P. Zariquiey Biondi, R. D. Oxford University Press en Letras possessive classifier body parts mataguayan diachrony This paper argues for the existence of an early possessive classifier *t(V)- that may have distinguished body-parts from the rest of the inalienable nouns in the Mataguayan language family. Evidence of this is the documentation of a t(V)-form or a t(V)-form series in the possessive flexional paradigms in this family. In most cases, it is synchronically reanalysed as a possessive prefix fused to the pronominal possessive prefixes, while in others, *t(V)- seems to have been fused to the root. This suggests that, in Proto-Mataguayan, there may have been only one pronominal series indexing possessor, and that *t(V)- was related to the meaning of the root. We also posit there is a relationship with a formally similar verbal prefix, which classifies agentive intransitive roots, and a presumable semantic extension of *t(V)- from body-part nouns to agency in intransitive predicates. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales Libro Capitulo de libro http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf 310-334 |
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This paper argues for the existence of an early possessive classifier *t(V)- that may have distinguished body-parts from the rest of the inalienable nouns in the Mataguayan language family. Evidence of this is the documentation of a t(V)-form or a t(V)-form series in the possessive flexional paradigms in this family. In most cases, it is synchronically reanalysed as a possessive prefix fused to the pronominal possessive prefixes, while in others, *t(V)- seems to have been fused to the root. This suggests that, in Proto-Mataguayan, there may have been only one pronominal series indexing possessor, and that *t(V)- was related to the meaning of the root. We also posit there is a relationship with a formally similar verbal prefix, which classifies agentive intransitive roots, and a presumable semantic extension of *t(V)- from body-part nouns to agency in intransitive predicates. |
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Nercesian, Verónica Vidal, Alejandra Valenzuela, P. Zariquiey Biondi, R. D. |
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Nercesian, Verónica Vidal, Alejandra Valenzuela, P. Zariquiey Biondi, R. D. |
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Body-parts and possessive constructions in Mataguayan languages |
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Body-parts and possessive constructions in Mataguayan languages |
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Body-parts and possessive constructions in Mataguayan languages |
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Body-parts and possessive constructions in Mataguayan languages |
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Body-parts and possessive constructions in Mataguayan languages |
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