A Grammar of Sierra Popoluca
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Lynda Boudreault
About this book
This work is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Sierra Popoluca, a Mixe-Zoquean language spoken by approximately 28,000 people in Veracruz, Mexico. This detailed description and analysis includes an overview of the language and its family, its typological features and its phonology. The grammar also provides an overview of the word classes, including verbs, nouns, relational nouns/postpositions, adjectives, adverbs, numbers, and formative types.
The bulk of this grammar is devoted to the morphosyntax of Sierra Popoluca, including nouns and nominal morphology, verbs and verbal morphology, and the mechanisms for expressing tense, aspect, mood, and modality. An agglutinating, polysynthetic, head-marking language with ergative-absolutive alignment and sensitivity to animacy and saliency hierarchies, Sierra Popoluca has a number of strategies to form complex predicates, which include verb serialization, noun incorporation, and dependent verb constructions. These complex predicate formation strategies and sentence-level syntax are also described here. A compilation of interlinearized texts appears in the appendix. There is no competing work that provides the breadth and depth of coverage of the Sierra Popoluca grammar.
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Lynda Boudreault, Austin, Texas, USA.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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List of Tables
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List of Figures
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Abbreviations and Symbols
XXIII - Part I: Introduction and Preliminaries
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1 Introduction
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2 Phonology
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3 Words and Formatives
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4 Nouns and Their Morphology
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5 Nominal Modifiers
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6 Postpositions and Relational Nouns
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7 Adverbs and Adverbial Particles
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8 Verb Classes
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9 Non-verbal Predicates
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10 Verbal Derivation
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11 Alignment and Number
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12 Aspect, Mood, and Modality
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13 Voice and Other Argument-Event Relationships
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14 Valency Increasing
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15 The Verbal Template and Affix Ordering
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16 The Basic Clause
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17 Negation
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18 Interrogative Clauses
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19 Topic and Focus
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20 Complex Predicates I: Noun Incorporation
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21 Complex Predicates II: Verb Serialization
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22 Complex Predicates III: Dependent Verbs
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23 Complement Clauses
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24 Relative Clauses
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25 Adverbial and Conditional Clauses
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26 Secondary Predication
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27 Coordination
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28 Conclusion
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29 Text
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30 Text Corpus and Coding Guide
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Bibliography
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