<p>In this paper, I examine clause nominalization in Northern Tepehuan (NT hereinafter), particularly the source of the nominalizer -gai that occurs in complement and adverbial clauses. I propose that this suffix originates from the demonstrative <em>igai</em>, which also functions as 3SG/PL pronoun. Evidence comes from the examination of word order in clauses when this demonstrative acts as a personal pronoun, which led to the reanalysis of this element into a suffix. I test the hypothesis by also showing a similar path of grammaticalization with the suffix -<em>go</em>. The data from NT used in this paper comes from my own fieldwork as well as from Bascom (1982) and Rinaldini (1994). Data from Pima Bajo (Hale 2002; Estrada, In Press) is used as well.</p>
De conectores y marcadores en el discurso del wixárika (huichol): Un caso de contacto entre lenguas * ABSTRACT: This paper examines two types of grammatical elements transferred from Spanish into Wixárika discourse: clausal connectives (e.g., pero~peru~pe) and sequence markers (e.g., entonses~tonse). The analysis shows the different degrees of phonological and syntactic integration of these elements into the language as well as structure replications. The study concludes that these transfers occur due to two reasons. First, the language has less resources to express interclausal relations or clause sequences in an explicit way; and second, the language uses multifunctional elements. These transfers, however, have not triggered major changes in the polysynthetic characteristics of the language due to the peripheral nature of these elements. RESUMEN:Este artículo examina dos tipos de elementos gramaticales del español transferidos al discurso del wixárika: los conectores interclausales (ej. pero~peru~pe) y los marcadores discursivos secuenciales (ej. entonses~tonse). El análisis muestra los distintos grados de integración fonológica y sintáctica de estos elementos en la lengua, así como las réplicas estructurales existentes. Se concluye que estas transferencias ocurren debido a que la lengua tiene menos recursos para expresar las relaciones interclausales o de secuencia de manera explícita y por el uso de elementos multifuncionales. Sin embargo, estas transferencias no han tenido repercusiones considerables en las características polisintéticas de la lengua debido a su naturaleza periférica. ayudarnos y permitirnos conocer la lengua wixárika. De igual manera, agradecemos al Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACyT) por el apoyo proporcionado para la realización de este trabajo y a los dictaminadores anónimos por sus valiosos comentarios.
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