SIL México

Reanalysis of Passive and Negative Prefixes in Seri

Declaración de Responsabilidad:
Marlett, Stephen A
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Fecha de Emisión:
2002
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14 pages
Abstracto:
Two productive Seri prefixes, negative and passive, are in a limited number of cases reanalyzed as part of the verb stem. This reanalysis has produced homophonous verb forms: one group is clearly analytical (affix + root) and one group is clearly synthetic. The evidence that reanalysis has taken place is presented. These new verb roots enter into new morphological constructions. And since the original analytical verb forms continue to exist, the result is the coexistence of homophonous and sometimes virtually synonymous words (such as the original transitive verb and a new causative verb that is based on a reanalyzed passive).
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Published
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Parte de la serie:
Linguistic Discovery, 1(1)
Número de Entrada:
2383