Nahuatl Direct and Mediated Possession: A Historical Explanation for Irregularities

Dakin, Karen

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“…Nahuan pattern of first mora stress developed as independent function words with word level stress in the sentence fused to the verbal complex causing stress to be reorganized, and constitutes an alternative to that posited by Dakin (1991). Dakin (1991) hypothesized that stress placement was originally on the second syllable, but could be affected by the addition of suffixes. "… the stress in pre-Proto-Nahuatl was dynamic.…”

Section: Sapir's Law: Accent Syncope and Consonant Gradationmentioning

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“…The origin of Nahuan /y/ from PUA *p Dakin (2000) showed that in some cases Nahuatl (specifically Western Nahuatl) has a /y/ in a position where it would correspond to PUA *p. The apparent correspondence of some instances of /y/ from *p was in fact already observed by Sapir (1915:110-111) who proposed that this was the result of *p having been reduced to *h which was then palatalized in front of the vowel *e. However in 2017, Dakin suggested instead that Western Nahua had been influenced by Corachol words with initial h in a way that caused them to introduced /y/ as a correspondence to corachol /h/ in the beginning of some words starting with /e/.…”

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“…Here I differ fromDakin (2001Dakin ( , 2003 who see it as a nominalizing derivational suffix forming a noun characterized by the possession of some trait.12 Kauyawi is today often described as a Deer Youth, but in the storiestold by Juan de Dios to Robert Zingg collected in the 1930s (Zingg 2004), the deity is described as related to wolves and coyotes.…”

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Sapir’s Law and the Role Of Accent in the Reconstruction of Proto- Corachol-Nahuan (accepted version)

Hansen¹

2022

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This paper studies the relevance of accent in the reconstruction of the immediate ancestor language of the Coracholan (Glottolog: cora1259) and Nahuan (Glottolog: azte1234) language groups (Uto-Aztecan > Southern Uto-Aztecan, Mexico). I argue that several irregularities in the phonological developments of Nahuan and Corachol, that have been previously observed but not explained, can be explained by reference to the accent of proto-Corachol-Nahua (Glottolog: cora1261) which can be reconstructed based on a principle originally proposed by Edward Sapir (1913).

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Section: Sapir's Law: Accent Syncope and Consonant Gradationmentioning

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Sapir’s Law and the Role Of Accent in the Reconstruction of Proto- Corachol-Nahuan (accepted version)

Hansen¹

2022

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“…The second suffix considered here is *¤wa, a reflex of the Proto-Uto-Aztecan possessed noun marker **¤wa (Langacker 1977:88-89;Dakin 1991;Alvarez Gonzalez and Muchembled 2013:15-21;cf. Shaul 1990:565-67 andDedrick andCasad 1999:166-67).…”

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Ralámuli Kinship Terminology: A Diachronic Perspective on Diversity in the Sierra Tarahumara of Northwestern Mexico

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Burgess²

2014

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Abstract. The kinship terminological systems documented for modern Ralá-muli (Tarahumara), a Southern Uto-Aztecan language, exhibit considerable dialectal and subdialectal diversity in both the terms they include and the linguistic forms of these terms-a diversity best understood in relation to the Proto-Tarahumaran kinship system. We reconstruct this antecedent system and discuss the principal changes that occurred in it between the seventeenth and late nineteenth centuries, when the Proto-Tarahumaran speech community appears to have still been intact. Many of the lexical, phonological, morphological, semantic, and structural differences that distinguish the modern systems from one another, like the emergence of the modern Ralámuli dialects, can be linked to the disruption of interaction patterns during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries that resulted in the breakup of the Proto-Tarahumaran speech community.

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“…274, 277) señala algunos problemas semejantes en un proceso de contacto lingüístico pero en dirección inversa, esto es, con el español como lengua fuente y la lengua indígena como meta 12. Véanse, por ejemplo, los numerosos artículos del IJAL que analizan este doble sistema de marcación posesiva; entre otros,DAKIN 1991; SEILER 1982;FREEZE 1976;DAVIES 1984;HOFLING 1990. Cf.…”

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Cantidad vs. cualidad en el contacto de lenguas. Una incursión metodológica en los posesivos "redundantes" del español americano

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Nahuatl Direct and Mediated Possession: A Historical Explanation for Irregularities

Cited by 12 publications

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Sapir’s Law and the Role Of Accent in the Reconstruction of Proto- Corachol-Nahuan (accepted version)

Sapir’s Law and the Role Of Accent in the Reconstruction of Proto- Corachol-Nahuan (accepted version)

Ralámuli Kinship Terminology: A Diachronic Perspective on Diversity in the Sierra Tarahumara of Northwestern Mexico

Cantidad vs. cualidad en el contacto de lenguas. Una incursión metodológica en los posesivos "redundantes" del español americano

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