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Chapter 8. Valency-changing devices in two Southern Zapotec languages

  • Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona
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Valence Changes in Zapotec
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Abstract

This article describes morphological strategies that change the valence of verbs in two Southern Zapotec languages: Coatec Zapotec and Miahuatec Zapotec. These strategies include noun incorporation, causative and anticausative morphemes. Due to historical phonological changes some morphology has become fusional and involves fortition, palatalization, tonal changes, and stem alternations. Southern Zapotec valency-changing morphology is here looked at through a historical lens, with reference to Kaufman’s (1989) Proto-Zapotec verb classification. Data from these and other languages suggest a pattern of non-coronal (R1) replacive morphology associated with intransitivity, the opposite of a pattern previously identified by Kaufman. Proto-Zapotec causative morphology, sometimes now fossilized, has different statuses in Southern Zapotec ranging from derivational to inflectional morphology and to an auxiliary verb.

Abstract

This article describes morphological strategies that change the valence of verbs in two Southern Zapotec languages: Coatec Zapotec and Miahuatec Zapotec. These strategies include noun incorporation, causative and anticausative morphemes. Due to historical phonological changes some morphology has become fusional and involves fortition, palatalization, tonal changes, and stem alternations. Southern Zapotec valency-changing morphology is here looked at through a historical lens, with reference to Kaufman’s (1989) Proto-Zapotec verb classification. Data from these and other languages suggest a pattern of non-coronal (R1) replacive morphology associated with intransitivity, the opposite of a pattern previously identified by Kaufman. Proto-Zapotec causative morphology, sometimes now fossilized, has different statuses in Southern Zapotec ranging from derivational to inflectional morphology and to an auxiliary verb.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. List of Contributors vii
  4. List of abbreviations and special symbols ix
  5. Chapter 1. Foreword 1
  6. Chapter 2. Introduction 7
  7. Chapter 3. Valence-altering operations in zapotec 23
  8. Chapter 4. Valence alternations in the Tlacolula Valley Zapotec lexicon 55
  9. Chapter 5. Valence-changing morphology in San Dionisio Ocotepec Zapotec 79
  10. Chapter 6. Morphological valence-changing processes in Juchitán Zapotec 93
  11. Chapter 7. Valence-changing operations in Coatecas Altas Zapotec 117
  12. Chapter 8. Valency-changing devices in two Southern Zapotec languages 139
  13. Chapter 9. Valence-changing operations in Zaniza Zapotec 175
  14. Chapter 10. Agency and verb valence in Lachixío Zapotec 191
  15. Chapter 11. Changes in valence in San Andrés Yaá Zapotec 213
  16. Chapter 12. Causative morphology in Macuiltianguis Zapotec 237
  17. Chapter 13. Indirect object ‘lowering’ in San Bartolomé Zoogocho Zapotec 281
  18. Chapter 14. Zapotec reciprocals 297
  19. Chapter 15. Verb inflection and valence in Zapotec 323
  20. Chapter 16. Valence change 345
  21. Index 381
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.110.08bea

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. List of Contributors vii
  4. List of abbreviations and special symbols ix
  5. Chapter 1. Foreword 1
  6. Chapter 2. Introduction 7
  7. Chapter 3. Valence-altering operations in zapotec 23
  8. Chapter 4. Valence alternations in the Tlacolula Valley Zapotec lexicon 55
  9. Chapter 5. Valence-changing morphology in San Dionisio Ocotepec Zapotec 79
  10. Chapter 6. Morphological valence-changing processes in Juchitán Zapotec 93
  11. Chapter 7. Valence-changing operations in Coatecas Altas Zapotec 117
  12. Chapter 8. Valency-changing devices in two Southern Zapotec languages 139
  13. Chapter 9. Valence-changing operations in Zaniza Zapotec 175
  14. Chapter 10. Agency and verb valence in Lachixío Zapotec 191
  15. Chapter 11. Changes in valence in San Andrés Yaá Zapotec 213
  16. Chapter 12. Causative morphology in Macuiltianguis Zapotec 237
  17. Chapter 13. Indirect object ‘lowering’ in San Bartolomé Zoogocho Zapotec 281
  18. Chapter 14. Zapotec reciprocals 297
  19. Chapter 15. Verb inflection and valence in Zapotec 323
  20. Chapter 16. Valence change 345
  21. Index 381
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