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This volume constitutes one of the results of a seminar organized in 2003 by Zarina Estrada-Fernández. For three years, each November, the seminar was held at the University of Sonora in Hermosillo, and brought together many general linguists and specialists in particular languages to discuss issues related to the morphosyntactic feature of voice. As a result, two books have been published: the first volume in Sonora in 2007 (Estrada-Fernández et al. 2007) and the second in 2008 (Estrada-Fernández et al. 2008). Since 2006, the members of the seminar have been discussing issues related to the identification, analysis, and genesis of linguistic complexity, with a major focus on subordination and related types of clause combining, especially in indigenous languages of the Americas (Comrie & Estrada-Fernández 2012; Estrada-Fernández, Chamoreau & Alvarez González forthcoming). In 2009, some linguists working in European universities and research centers joined the seminar within the International Program of Scientific Cooperation (PICS). The discussion of complex constructions attested in the different languages led us to study the evolution of nominalization processes and to describe nominalized clauses functioning as dependent clauses. In October 2011, a workshop was organized in Paris. Its goal was to explore specific topics, including the link between finiteness and nominalization and the characterization of, and changes in, the process of finitization. This edited volume contains selected papers that document the main topics discussed in the workshop. These thirteen contributions reflect the wide range of topics offered regarding the relation between finiteness and nominalization analyzed crosslinguistically from synchronic and/or diachronic perspectives. The majority of the contributions study Amerindian languages; however, one paper describes Beja, a Cushitic language, and another Haruai, a non-Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea, while yet another primarily describes Oceanic languages. As the authors generally take a typological perspective, examples from many languages are proposed in all the papers in order to compare phenomena. This volume is organized in four sections, reflecting the main topics discussed in each paper. However, some papers were allocated to a different section because they address more than one relevant topic.
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Este libro ofrece la primera traducción al español del único diccionario de la lengua tarahumara producido durante la época colonial que perdura hoy en día, así como el primer análisis detallado de su contenido. Perteneciente a la familia lingüística yuto-nahua, la lengua tarahumara es hablada en el norte de México por más de 80,000 personas, quienes se refieren a su idioma y a sí mismos como Ararámuri@. El diccionario, escrito en alemán, fue compilado por el jesuita moravo Matthäus Steffel y está basado en su experiencia como misionero entre los tarahumaras durante los años de 1761 y 1767. Más de mil palabras tarahumaras, así como diversas dimensiones de la gramática del idioma, son documentadas y sus entradas léxicas son enriquecidas con descripciones precisas de la cultura tarahumara del siglo xviii. El libro incluye traducciones y transcripciones de las dos versiones existentes del diccionario. Estas se complementan por capítulos analíticos y apéndices que facilitan el uso de los datos que contienen e indican el valor de la obra para la investigación lingüística y antropológica moderna.
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