Yuchi Phonemes and Morphemes, with Special Reference to Person Markers

Wolff, H. Ekkehard

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“…There is actually quite a large sample of cases like these, including Yuchi (Wolff 1948), Diuxi Mixtec (Kuiper & Pickett 1974), Texmelucan Zapotec (Marlett 1993), and Cocama, where gender indexing typically occurs in forms used in specifically human reference. Further evidence for structural analogies, if not historical relationships, between kin term semantics and gender indexicality in the Americas is found in the locus of gender indexical marking in a number of languages.…”

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“…Kadiwéu (aka Mbayá) still maintains phonological speaker-focal gender indexicality, but the women's forms are now only used by women who are descendants of Kadiwéu women (Sandalo 1996). In Yuchi, not only do 3rd person pronominals nonreferentially index speaker gender, but they also relationally index relative age between speaker and referent (Wolff 1948). Balmori (1967) also claimed that there was men's and women's speech differences in Lule-Vilela and Toba, the latter, like Kadiwéu, being a member of the Waikurúan language family.…”

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“…We have already seen that in Kayabi and Chiquitano speaker-focal gender indexicals only occur in forms used for human reference (3rd person pronominals, determiners, human nouns, etc.). There is actually quite a large sample of cases like these, including Yuchi (Wolff 1948), Diuxi Mixtec (Kuiper & Pickett 1974), Texmelucan Zapotec (Marlett 1993), and Cocama, where gender indexing typically occurs in forms used in specifically human reference. Thus, in Yuchi, Chiquitano, Mixtec, and Zapotec different forms indexical of speaker gender are used in 3rd person human masculine and human feminine pronominal paradigms, while in Cocama (where there is no semantic gender) different forms are used in demonstratives and 3rd person singular and plural pronouns.…”

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“…Men's and women's speech differences are attested in not only the “Eastern division” of Muskogean languages (Creek, Hitchiti, and Koasati (Haas 1944)) but also in the language isolates of Tunica and Yuchi. Yuchi, whose speakers were closely affiliated with the Muscogee Confederacy, has morphological differences in 3rd person pronominal paradigms that index the social gender of speaker (Wolff 1948). Biloxi (Mississippi Siouan), spoken on the lower Mississippi River, had different imperative forms depending on the gender (and age) of the speaker and addressee (Haas 1944:149) and different gender-indexing forms of the interrogative and declarative moods (Einaudi 1976:78–80).…”

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Gender indexicality in the Native Americas: Contributions to the typology of social indexicality

Fleming

2012

Lang. Soc.

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This article provides a global survey of categorical gender indexicality that reveals the near exclusive presence of the phenomenon in the languages of the Native Americas, a fact for which a historical rationale is offered. The survey is helpful in contributing to our understanding of social indexicality in three ways. First, while two-place (or relational) social indexicals, like honorifics, have been well studied, one-place (or absolute) social indexicals have not. Systems of gender indexicality, overwhelmingly of the absolute type, thus help flesh out the typology of social indexicality. Second, the survey illustrates the remarkable complementarity of semantic gender, as a category of denotation, and social gender, as an aspect of identity indexed in discourse, in particular as these overlap in cases of gender deixis. Finally, the study of gender indexicality in the Native Americas reveals that not all gender indexicality is equally gender performative. A number of diagnostics of a categorical type—from ubiquitous rule-governed regularity of patterning to quotability—illustrate that in the cases discussed, forms are highly presupposing, not performative, of the social gender of the speech participants they index. (Gender, indexicality, deixis, Native Americas)*

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Section: Gender In Discourse Denotation and Deixismentioning

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2012

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“…Beginning with segmental phonology (163-168), he bases his morphophonological rules (177-184) on a sketch of verb inflection (1 §8-177) which is restricted to subject prefixes. A proper assessment of Ballard's paper would have to be based on a detailed comparison with the earlier studies of Wagner (1934) and Wolff (1948). As an aside it may be worth noting that the inflectional system of Yuchi verbs not only distinguishes men's and women's speech but also whether the third person being referred to is a Yuchi or not.…”

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1977

Linguistics

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Linguistics 200, pp. 63-96. © Mouton Publishers, 1977. REVIEWS S. S. Vysotskij, M. V. Panov, A. A. Reformatskij and V. N. Sidorov (eds.), Razvitie fonetiki sovremennogo russkogo jazyka: Fonologiceskie podsistemy. Moskva, Izdatel'stvo "Nauka", 1971. 344 pp. This collection of papers, edited by four of the most notable Moscow phoneticians and linguists, is the second in the series on Russian phonetics put out by the Institute of the Russian Language of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.The opening paper, 0 moskovskoj fonologiceskoj skole, which forms the first of the book's seven sections, is a transcription of a tape-recording of an informal talk on the Moscow phonological school given by the late Prof. V. N. Sidorov to some younger members of the institute in June 1967. The publication of this paper is more than an act of pietas: essentially a fragment of scientific autobiography by one of the school's most original and influential thinkers, it is a welcome contribution to the primary sources on the history of linguistics in the USSR.The second section contains two papers. The first, O grammaticeskix faktorax razvitija foneticeskoj sistemy sovremennogo russkogo jazyka, examines the role of purely grammatical factors in the evolution of Russian pronunciation, for which the team of four authors, M. Ja. Glovinskaja, N. E. Il'ina, S. M. Kuz'mina, and M. V. Panov, finds considerable evidence in changes in the pronunciation of vowels, consonants, and loan words over the last fifty to sixty years. The second paper, O proiznosenii rabochix -urozencev g. Moskvy, by £. V. Ganiev, is a pioneering study of the pronunciation of factory workers. His investigation, carried out in 1965-7 at a Moscow iron-factory, used sixty speakers, fifty men and ten women, aged between seventeen and sixty-three, and representing a wide range of trades and jobs. The results reveal no correlation between a speaker's pronunciation and his trade or job. The main influence on it, Jhat of dialect, came either through his parents or as a result of prolonged residence, particularly in childhood, in the dialect's locality.The substantial third section, to which belong four papers, is devoted to certain peripheral, and therefore less studied, problems of contemporary Russian literary pronunciation. The first, Ob odnoj fonologiceskoj podsisteme Brought to you by |

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Yuchi Phonemes and Morphemes, with Special Reference to Person Markers

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