Tohono 0'odham (Papago) Plurals  

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Hill, Jane H. ; Zepeda, Ofelia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 40 no. 1 (1998), page 1-42.
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Tohono O'odham exhibits two types of plural reduplication for nouns: a marked plural with a long vowel in the reduplicated syllable, and an unmarked plural with a short vowel. The marked plural, appearing with fewer than 100 nouns, is determined partly by the foot structure of the stem, but primarily by conceptual assignment of the referent to a radial category centered on a prototype of protruding (e.g., 'nose') or intruding (e.g., 'mouth') body parts. Extensions and transformations of this schema classify nouns in diverse domains including landscape features, kin terms, names for animals, terms for plant parts, and terms for artifacts. A noun class marked by long-vowel pluralization appears to be widespread in the Tepiman languages and may reflect a broader tendency within Uto-Aztecan. We discuss finally the distinction between pluralization class and countability, returning to a classic problem in language-and-culture studies raised by Mathiot in the 1960s.

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