Polysynthesis in Hueyapan Nahuatl: The Status of Noun Phrases, Basic Word Order, and Other Concerns  

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Hansen, Magnus Pharao

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 52 no. 3 (2010), page 274-299.
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This article presents University data showing and Other Concerns that the syntax of the Nahuatl dialect spoken in Hueyapan, Morelos, Mexico has traits of nonconfiguration- ality: word order being pragmatically free word order and free pro-drop, neutral. It permits with predicate-initial discontinuous noun phrases and has no naturally occurring Nahuatl are adjuncts true quantifiers, suggesting that noun phrases rather than actual arguments. in Hueyapan These findings are con- trasted with those of an earlier Nahuatl syntax has relatively study by Jeffrey MacSwan, who concludes that fixed subject- verb -object word order. It is suggested that the differences observed between the two Nahuatl varieties may be a result of methodological problems it in the direction of a more rigid syntax. in MacSwan's collection of data, skewing

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