Zenzontepec Chatino Aspect Morphology and Zapotecan Verb Classes

Campbell, Eric W.

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“…Vowel hiatus is not permitted within a phonological word. When a sequence of vowels would arise at a prefix-stem boundary, one vowel elides (Campbell 2011), as illustrated in (32), in which the /a/ of the stem -akʷiɁ 'speak' elides in contact with the vowel /i/ of the Potential Mood and Habitual Aspect prefixes. As for phonotactic evidence for the phonological word, as already discussed, contrastive nasal vowels, long vowels, and coda glottal stop only occur in the final syllable of a stem with its prefixes (i.e.…”

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Probing phonological structure in play language: Speaking backwards in Zenzontepec Chatino

Campbell

2020

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Play languages (also known as language games or ludlings) represent a special type of language use that is well known to shed useful light on linguistic structure. This paper explores a syllable transposition play language in Zenzontepec Chatino that provides evidence for the segmental inventory, syllable structure, the limits of the phonological word, the prosodic status of inflectional formatives, and the autonomy of tone, all of which aligns with independent phonological evidence in the language. While recent theoretical and cross-linguistic studies have questioned the nature, and even the validity, of constituents such as the phonological word, the syllable, and the onset, this study provides an example of a language with strongly manifested phonological constituents. The study also highlights the importance of in-depth analysis of less-studied languages for linguistic theory, typology, and language maintenance or reclamation for communities.

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Probing phonological structure in play language: Speaking backwards in Zenzontepec Chatino

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2020

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“…Otomanguean languages are noted for having impressively complex verbal inflectional classes, with rich allomorphy in person or aspect‐mood inflection (usually position 3 and/or tone change on the stem; Campbell, ; Palancar, ; Smith Stark, ; Wichmann, ).…”

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Otomanguean historical linguistics: Past, present, and prospects for the future

Campbell

2017

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Among the linguistic lineages of Mesoamerica, the Otomanguean family is the most diverse and most widely spread. Long occupying a central position in one of the cradles of human civilization, speakers of Otomanguean languages have played important roles in the region, about which their languages have much to tell. However, Otomanguean is perhaps the least understood of the major Mesoamerican language families, due to its great diversity, the remarkable structural complexity of Otomanguean languages and the history of the field of Otomanguean historical linguistics, which has seen great achievement alternating with periodic controversy and doubt. With a focus on the higher levels and more ancient time depths of the family, this article surveys Otomanguean historical linguistic work and presents a state of the art perspective on Otomanguean classification, reconstruction, linguistic prehistory, remaining challenges, and prospects for the future.

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“…Oto-Manguean languages are known for having complex inflectional morphology ( de Angulo 1933;Jamieson 1982;Smith Stark 2002;Palancar 2011), and Chatino languages are no exception (Rasch 2002;Pride 2004;Woodbury 2008aWoodbury , 2008bCampbell 2009Campbell , 2011Villard 2010;Cruz 2011;Sullivant 2011). In Zenzontepec Chatino (ISO 693-6: czn), verbal aspect/mood inflection is realized jointly by two layers of morphology.…”

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Layered Complexity In Zenzontepec Chatino Verbal Inflectional Classes

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2019

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Most verbs in Zenzontepec Chatino fall into one of seven inflectional classes according to which allomorphs of the aspect/mood prefixes they occur with (Campbell 2011), and they also fall into one of nine tone alternation patterns across the different inflectional categories. The intersection of these two layers of inflection, and some further irregularities within them, yields 39 distinct prefix-tone classes. Some of the prefix-tone classes are well populated, while others have only a few or even just one verb in them. Meanwhile, there are another 29 irregular verbs in the language that have either some stem suppletion or some exceptional prefixal inflection, bringing the number of distinct inflectional patterns up to 68. There are only 378 basic verbs that fall into these 68 inflectional patterns. The layered complexity of aspect/mood inflection, with the large number of small, even singleton, classes that it creates, blurs the line between inflectional classes and irregular verbs. While it makes sense to consider the more frequent patterns as inflectional classes, the less frequent patterns might just as well be considered irregular verbs instead of very small inflectional classes. Ultimately, there is no clear choice of exactly where such a line should be drawn between inflectional classes and irregular verbs, and Zenzontepec Chatino verbal inflection raises interesting and challenging questions for morphological typology.

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Zenzontepec Chatino Aspect Morphology and Zapotecan Verb Classes

Cited by 19 publications

References 9 publications

Probing phonological structure in play language: Speaking backwards in Zenzontepec Chatino

Probing phonological structure in play language: Speaking backwards in Zenzontepec Chatino

Otomanguean historical linguistics: Past, present, and prospects for the future

Layered Complexity In Zenzontepec Chatino Verbal Inflectional Classes

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