Number marking in Nadëb
(2021) In Visitas al Patio 15(2). p.255-273- Abstract
- One of the most robust sources of fresh insights into typological categories comes from our growing knowledge of the indigenous languages of South America, a region that until recently has been significantly under-represented in typological studies. This paper offers a case in point through the investigation of number in Nadëb, a member of the small Naduhup family of the northwest Amazon, which reveals several typologically intriguing features. One of these is Nadëb’s emphasis on marking number on the verb as opposed to the noun, even while any registering of event number appears to be secondary to that of participant number. Nadëb also relies heavily on suppletive or semi-suppletive stem pairs in encoding number distinctions in both nouns... (More)
- One of the most robust sources of fresh insights into typological categories comes from our growing knowledge of the indigenous languages of South America, a region that until recently has been significantly under-represented in typological studies. This paper offers a case in point through the investigation of number in Nadëb, a member of the small Naduhup family of the northwest Amazon, which reveals several typologically intriguing features. One of these is Nadëb’s emphasis on marking number on the verb as opposed to the noun, even while any registering of event number appears to be secondary to that of participant number. Nadëb also relies heavily on suppletive or semi-suppletive stem pairs in encoding number distinctions in both nouns and verbs. Finally, Nadëb’s resources for expressing number are quite different from those seen in its three sister languages, in which number is primarily a feature of the noun phrase, suggesting a significant reorganization of number-marking within the language family. The Nadëb case underscores the considerable diversity evident in number-marking strategies typologically, and how this diversity may emerge even within a single language family of limited time-depth. (Less)
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- Abstract på spanska
Una de las fuentes más sólidas de nuevo conocimiento sobre las categorías tipológicas proviene de nuestro creciente entendimiento de las lenguas indígenas de América del Sur, una región que hasta hace poco ha estado significativamente subrepresentada en los estudios tipológicos. Este artículo ofrece un ejemplo a través de la investigación del número en nadëb, un miembro de la pequeña familia Naduhup del noroeste Amazónico, que revela varias características tipológicamente intrigantes. Una de ellas es el énfasis en marcar el número en el verbo en oposición al sustantivo, incluso cuando cualquier registro del número del evento parece ser secundario al del número del participante. El nadëb también se basa... (More) - Abstract på spanska
Una de las fuentes más sólidas de nuevo conocimiento sobre las categorías tipológicas proviene de nuestro creciente entendimiento de las lenguas indígenas de América del Sur, una región que hasta hace poco ha estado significativamente subrepresentada en los estudios tipológicos. Este artículo ofrece un ejemplo a través de la investigación del número en nadëb, un miembro de la pequeña familia Naduhup del noroeste Amazónico, que revela varias características tipológicamente intrigantes. Una de ellas es el énfasis en marcar el número en el verbo en oposición al sustantivo, incluso cuando cualquier registro del número del evento parece ser secundario al del número del participante. El nadëb también se basa en gran medida en pares de raíces supletivas o semi-supletivas para codificar distinciones numéricas tanto en sustantivos como en verbos. Finalmente, los recursos del nadëb para expresar número son bastante diferentes de los que se ven en sus tres idiomas hermanos, en los cuales el número es principalmente una característica del sintagma nominal, lo que sugiere una reorganización significativa de la marcación de número dentro de la familia lingüística. El caso del nadëb subraya la considerable diversidad tipológica evidente en las estrategias de marcación de número, y cómo esta diversidad puede surgir incluso dentro de una sola familia lingüística que tiene una duración temporal limitada. (Less)
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- Epps, Patience and Obert, Karolin LU
- alternative title
- Marcación de número en Nadëb (Spansk titel)
- publishing date
- 2021
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- number, plurality, Nadëb, Amazonia, typology
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- Visitas al Patio
- volume
- 15
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 19 pages
- ISSN
- 2248-485X
- DOI
- 10.32997/RVP-vol.15-num.2-2021-3689
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- English
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- no
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- a42cbf80-f5e5-4d76-a61e-63c798891eab
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