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El origen de las postposiciones instrumentales en cahita (Yuto-Azteca): una nueva propuesta

Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México


Field	Value

ISSN	2007-736X 2007-736X

Other Standard Identifier	10.24201/clecm.v10i00.270 doi

Authentication Code	dc

Title Statement	El origen de las postposiciones instrumentales en cahita (Yuto-Azteca): una nueva propuesta

Personal Name	Álvarez González, Albert Universidad de Sonora https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3578-6288

Summary, etc.	This paper presents a diachronic analysis of instrumental postpositions in Cahita languages (Tehueco, Yaqui and Mayo; Uto-Aztecan). Based on historical data from the beginning of the 17th century (Buelna 1890) and hypotheses about the possible bridging contexts (Heine 2002) that may have favored the grammaticalization processes at the origin of the instrumental morphemes, this study proposes that the origin has to be found in the possessive noun phrase, an origin different from those proposed by Dedrick & Casad (1999) and Haugen (2008). This historical reconstruction also brings to light the connections within the domain of postpositions between instrumental and causal meanings, as well as the connections between postpositions and non-subject nominalizers, since the same marker was used to encode these different functions, exhibiting an interesting polysemy. This paper aims to explain this polyfunctionality from a diachronic perspective, trying to clarify the grammaticalization paths that may have originated such syncretism.

Publication, Distribution, Etc.	El Colegio de México, A.C.

Electronic Location and Access	application/pdf https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/270

Data Source Entry	Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México; Vol. 10 (2023): enero-diciembre 2023

Language Note	eng

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note	Derechos de autor 2023 Albert Álvarez González