A Possible Macro-Chibchan Etymon  

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Hale, Kenneth

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 34 no. 1/4 (1992), page 173-201.
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The Misumalpan languages of Nicaragua and Honduras, compris- ing Miskitu and Sumu, together with the extinct Matagalpa-Cacaopera, form a well-defined family that is not closely related to any other in the Americas. Its suggested affiliation is with Macro-Chibchan, a reasonable proposal given its geographic proximity to the Nicaraguan Chibchan language, Rama, and to other Chibchan languages of Central America. But this putative relationship is not easy to demonstrate. Comparative work in the lexical domain is unreward- ing for the most part. If the relationship can be demonstrated at all, evidence for it is most likely to come from details of morphosyntax. In this paper, a single element is compared, i.e., the verbal suffix -i, of similar shape and func- tion, appearing in the Misumalpan languages, in Rama, and in Ika, a Chib- chan language of Colombia. The study is offered as an initial step in the pro- cess of harvesting morphology and syntax for possible evidence in support of the putative Macro-Chibchan affiliation of the Misumalpan languages.

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