The structure of the nominal phrase in Mazahua
The objective of this paper is to describe the structure of the nominal phrase (NP) in Mazahua; this structure is formed by a nominal core with no modifiers, or by a core modified by prefixes that encode for dimension and possession. Nominal cores are modified by nominal and relative clauses that ex...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ela.enallt.unam.mx:article/701 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ela.enallt.unam.mx/index.php/ela/article/view/701 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | noun; phrase; modifiers; quantifiers, relative clauses; Otomanguean sustantivo; frase; modificadores, cuantificadores; cláusulas relativas; otomangue |
| Sumario: | The objective of this paper is to describe the structure of the nominal phrase (NP) in Mazahua; this structure is formed by a nominal core with no modifiers, or by a core modified by prefixes that encode for dimension and possession. Nominal cores are modified by nominal and relative clauses that express concepts of property and relative clauses of varying syntactic nature. Nominal cores co-occur with plural forms, pronouns, demonstratives, numerals, and quantifiers. This work is basically descriptive; it is framed within a functionalist methodology; the different features of this structure are described according to correlations across the various levels of language analysis. The corpus is composed of a number of materials, that is, accounts, life stories, stories, and direct elicitations. |
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