The aspectual system of Acazulco Otomi

Some Otomi languages (Otomanguean, Otopamean) have been described as having tense and mood as primary TAM categories, while in others aspect and mood are treated as primary. The present paper describes the aspect categories of Acazulco Otomi (Ocoyoacac, Mexico State) as used in oral texts in an onli...

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Autor: Hernández Green, Néstor
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:México
Institución:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx:article/119
Acceso en línea:https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/119
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Otomi
Otomanguean
aspect
morphology
inflection.
otomí
otomangue
aspecto
morfología
flexión.
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Sumario:Some Otomi languages (Otomanguean, Otopamean) have been described as having tense and mood as primary TAM categories, while in others aspect and mood are treated as primary. The present paper describes the aspect categories of Acazulco Otomi (Ocoyoacac, Mexico State) as used in oral texts in an online corpus. By comparing paradigmatic, semantic, and morphological features in the categories of the TAM system, the paper shows that tense is a secondary category with respect to aspect. This paper also proposes a series of research lines that are relevant to the comparison of Otomi TAM systems, as well as to topics in language typology.