Nominal Derivational Morphology in San Pedro Mixtepec Zapotec, Oaxaca

 

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Ramos, Pafnuncio Antonio
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2020
Descripción:In this paper, I describe nominal derivational morphology in the Zapotec language spoken in the community of San Pedro Mixtepec, Oaxaca. In this language, there are four morphemes used to derive nouns. The first one is the w- morpheme. This prefix is used in verbal or nominal roots to derive nouns. The second one is the prefix giel-. This is a nominalizing morpheme, which occurs with adjectival, verbal or nominal roots to derive new nouns, and there are even instances in which this morpheme is prefixed to already nominalized verbs. The third one is the morpheme ngw-, with its allomorphs {ngw-}, {nkw-}, {ng-} and {n-}. This morpheme attaches to verbal roots to derive agent nouns. However, when it is attached to place names, it derives demonyms. The last one is a morpheme that occurs with animal names m- with its allomorphs {m-} and {n-}. This last system represents what has remained of the grammaticalization of at least two lexical elements originating in the protozapotecan and protozoquean linguistic families, which have gone through several phonological processes until becoming prefixes that occur at the beginning of animal names.
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lenguaje:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/41817
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/kanina/article/view/41817
Palabra clave:Morphology
derivation
nouns
prefix
Zapotec
Morfología
derivación
nombres
prefijos
zapoteco