Interrogative speech acts in Pima Bajo: typological characteristics

This work analyzes the different types of interrogative speech acts that have been observed in Pima Bajo, a language of the Tepiman branch of the Uto-Aztecan family spoken in northwestern Mexico. The analysis focuses on the different types of interrogative constructions, their particularities and di...

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Autor: Estrada-Fernández, Zarina
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Revista Liames (Online)
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8675410
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/liames/article/view/8675410
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Actos de habla interrogativos
Diacronía
Pima Bajo
Lenguas yuto-aztecas
Interrogative speech acts
Diachrony
Uto-Aztecan languages
Atos de fala interrogativos
Diacronia
Línguas yuto-aztecas
Descripción
Sumario:This work analyzes the different types of interrogative speech acts that have been observed in Pima Bajo, a language of the Tepiman branch of the Uto-Aztecan family spoken in northwestern Mexico. The analysis focuses on the different types of interrogative constructions, their particularities and differences, taking as a reference what is proposed by authors who have analyzed this functional domain from a typological perspective. The study considers three types of interrogative constructions: (i) the argument or content interrogatives, (ii) the polar interrogatives and (iii) the tag questions. The article describes the full list of the interrogative pronouns in Pima Bajo, their phonological variations, the occurrence of complex interrogatives, some observations concerning the prosody in some interrogative constructions and also provides a comparative overview of the interrogatives in this language in comparison with these elements in other Uto-Aztecan languages in order to discussing the possible diachronic origins of them.