A grammar of Choguita Rarámuri : In collaboration with Luz Elena León Ramírez, Sebastián Fuentes Holguín, Bertha Fuentes Loya and other Choguita Rarámuri language experts / Gabriela Caballero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caballero, Gabriela.

Series:

Comprehensive grammar library ; 5.

Comprehensive grammar library, 2748-971X ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tarahumara language--Study and teaching.

Tarahumara language.

Physical Description:

xiv, 665 pages : some illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Language Science Press, 2022.

Summary:

This book provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Choguita Rarámuri, a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in the Sierra Tarahumara, a mountainous range in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua belonging to the Sierra Madre Occidental. A documentary corpus developed between 2003 and 2018 with Choguita Rarámuri language experts informs the analysis and is the source of the examples presented in this grammar. The documentary corpus, which consists of over 200 hours of recordings of elicited data, narratives, conversations, interviews, and other speech genres, is available in two archival collections housed at the Endangered Languages Archive and at UC Berkeley's Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. Choguita Rarámuri is a highly synthetic, agglutinating language with a complex morphological system. It displays many of the recurrent structural features documented across Uto-Aztecan, including a predominance of suffixation, head-marking, and patterns of noun-incorporation and compounding (Sapir 1921; Whorf 1935; Haugen 2008b). Other features of typological and theoretical interest include a complex word prosodic system, a wide range of morphologically conditioned phonological processes, and patterns of variable affix order and multiple exponence. Choguita Rarámuri is also of great comparative/historical importance: while several analytical works of Uto-Aztecan languages of Northern Mexico have been produced in the last years (Guerrero Valenzuela 2006, García Salido 2014, Reyes Taboada 2014, Morales Moreno 2016, Villalpando Quiñonez 2019, inter alia), many varieties still lack comprehensive linguistic description and documentation.

Contents:

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Grammatical overview

3. Segmental phonology

4. Syllables

5. Stress

6. Tone and intonation

7. Other word-level supra-segmental processes

8. Nouns

9. Verbs and the verbal complex

10. Minor word classes

11. Prosody: domains and interactions

12. Noun phrases

13. Basic clause types

14. Sentence types

15. Complex clauses and complex predication

Appendix A: Verbal suffixes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 633-655) and indexes.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9783985540570

3985540578

OCLC:

1374552727

Publisher Number:

9783985540570