A Grammar of Sierra Popoluca
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A Grammar of Sierra Popoluca

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A Grammar of Sierra Popoluca

About this book

This work is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Sierra Popoluca, a Mixe-Zoquean language spoken by approximately 28,000 people in Veracruz, Mexico. This detailed description and analysis includes an overview of the language and its family, its typological features and its phonology. The grammar also provides an overview of the word classes, including verbs, nouns, relational nouns/postpositions, adjectives, adverbs, numbers, and formative types.

The bulk of this grammar is devoted to the morphosyntax of Sierra Popoluca, including nouns and nominal morphology, verbs and verbal morphology, and the mechanisms for expressing tense, aspect, mood, and modality. An agglutinating, polysynthetic, head-marking language with ergative-absolutive alignment and sensitivity to animacy and saliency hierarchies, Sierra Popoluca has a number of strategies to form complex predicates, which include verb serialization, noun incorporation, and dependent verb constructions. These complex predicate formation strategies and sentence-level syntax are also described here. A compilation of interlinearized texts appears in the appendix. There is no competing work that provides the breadth and depth of coverage of the Sierra Popoluca grammar.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9783110411676
eBook ISBN
9783110766271
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Languages
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. List of Tables
  4. List of Figures
  5. Abbreviations and Symbols
  6. Part I: Introduction and Preliminaries
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 Phonology
  9. 3 Words and Formatives
  10. Part II: Nouns and Their Projections
  11. 4 Nouns and Their Morphology
  12. 5 Nominal Modifiers
  13. 6 Postpositions and Relational Nouns
  14. 7 Adverbs and Adverbial Particles
  15. Part III: Verbs and Statives
  16. 8 Verb Classes
  17. 9 Non-verbal Predicates
  18. 10 Verbal Derivation
  19. 11 Alignment and Number
  20. 12 Aspect, Mood, and Modality
  21. 13 Voice and Other Argument-Event Relationships
  22. 14 Valency Increasing
  23. 15 The Verbal Template and Affix Ordering
  24. Part IV: Sentence Structure
  25. 16 The Basic Clause
  26. 17 Negation
  27. 18 Interrogative Clauses
  28. 19 Topic and Focus
  29. Part V: Complex Structures
  30. 20 Complex Predicates I: Noun Incorporation
  31. 21 Complex Predicates II: Verb Serialization
  32. 22 Complex Predicates III: Dependent Verbs
  33. 23 Complement Clauses
  34. 24 Relative Clauses
  35. 25 Adverbial and Conditional Clauses
  36. 26 Secondary Predication
  37. 27 Coordination
  38. Part VI: Conclusion
  39. 28 Conclusion
  40. 29 Text
  41. 30 Text Corpus and Coding Guide
  42. Bibliography