Abstract
This paper aims at broadening the interdisciplinary field of linguistic typology and dialectology, through diasystemic ecology, from the standpoint of inflectional morphology. Mazatec inflectional classes and intricate patterns of paradigm diversification are scrutinized through a survey of dialect taxonomies and an overall model describing main parameters, such as subconflation, inflectional class shifts and metatypes. This approach provides as efficient a grid to observe dialect divergence and convergence as traditional isoglosses, especially considering the high degree of regularity and systematicity of inflectional class processes in the Mazatec dialect network.
Abbreviations
- AGRS marking
agreement marking (agreement markers=agreement subject)
- Asp
aspect
- Ay
Ayautla
- cpl
completive aspect
- CPL Pv
specific completive preverb
- excl
exclusive
- imper
imperative
- /H/
high tone
- /h/
mid-high tone
- HM
High Mid
- Hu
Huautla de Jiménez
- IC
inflectional class
- ICS
inflectional class shift
- incl
inclusive
- incpl
incompletive aspect
- IOM
incompletive overmarking
- Ix
San Pedro Ixcatlán
- Ja
San Felipe Jalapa de Diaz
- Ji
Santa Maria Jiotes
- /L/
low tone
- LH
Low-High (contour tone)
- Lh
Low-Midhigh (contour tone)
- LM
Low-Mid (contour tone)
- /M/
mid tone
- MP
morphophonological
- MPR
morphophonological rule
- MPCT
morphophonological subconflation transfer
- MPSCT
morphophonological subconflation
- Mz
Mazatlán Villa de Flores
- Mtz
Mazatzongo de Guerrero (Puebla)
- N
noun
- ntr
neutral aspect
- OCP
Obligatory Contour Principle
- pl
plural
- Pv
preverb
- preverb-T
preverbal tone
- root tone Class class
root tone class
- SAP
Speech Act Participant
- SCFT.Br
Subconflation Breaking
- SCFT.Neu
Subconflation Asymmetry Neutralization
- SCFT.Sp
Subconflation Split
- SCx
string complexification
- sg
singular
- SJ Ind
San José Independencia
- SL
San Lorenzo
- SmTA
Stem Template Allomorphy
- Suff
Suffix
- T
tone
- TAM
Tense Aspect Mood
- TAMV
Tense Aspect Mood Voice
- TF
typological features
- V
underspecified vowel
- V’V, VhV
rearticulated vowels
- VOS
Verb Object Subject
- VSO
Verb Subject Object
- <>
spelling convention
- -
Affixal boundary
- =
clitic boundary
- |…|
morphemic representation (underlying concatenative pattern)
- /…/
phonological representation (lexical level)
- […]
phonetic representation (postlexical level)
- *
Etymological form
- !*
alexical form (or wrongly construed form)
Acknowledgments
This work is part of the program “Investissements d'Avenir” overseen by the French National Research Agency, ANR-10-LABX-0083 (Labex EFL), in particular PPC11 – Language dynamics and Complex systems (strand 1) and Cross-Mediated elicitations, EM2 (strand 7). Moreover, this work is also a result of the MAmP Project, funded by the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), which made fieldwork possible during the period 2009–2014. We also thank Bien Dobui (Sorbonne University) for her stylistic help.
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- Book Review
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