Grammar of Choguita Rarámuri : : In collaboration with Luz Elena León Ramírez, Sebastián Fuentes Holguín, Bertha Fuentes Loya and other Choguita Rarámuri language experts / / Gabriela Caballero.

• VerfasserIn: Caballero, Gabriela,
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : Language Science Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (665 pages)

This book provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Choguita Rarámuri, a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in the Sierra Tarahumara, a mountainous range in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua belonging to the Sierra Madre Occidental. A documentary corpus developed between 2003 and 2018 with Choguita Rarámuri language experts informs the analysis and is the source of the examples presented in this grammar. The documentary corpus, which consists of over 200 hours of recordings of elicited data, narratives, conversations, interviews, and other speech genres, is available in two archival collections housed at the Endangered Languages Archive and at UC Berkeley's Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. Choguita Rarámuri is a highly synthetic, agglutinating language with a complex morphological system. It displays many of the recurrent structural features documented across Uto-Aztecan, including a predominance of suffixation, head-marking, and patterns of noun-incorporation and compounding (Sapir 1921; Whorf 1935; Haugen 2008b). Other features of typological and theoretical interest include a complex word prosodic system, a wide range of morphologically conditioned phonological processes, and patterns of variable affix order and multiple exponence. Choguita Rarámuri is also of great comparative/historical importance: while several analytical works of Uto-Aztecan languages of Northern Mexico have been produced in the last years (Guerrero Valenzuela 2006, García Salido 2014, Reyes Taboada 2014, Morales Moreno 2016, Villalpando Quiñonez 2019, inter alia), many varieties still lack comprehensive linguistic description and documentation.

Table of Contents

Contents -- Abbreviations xi -- Acknowledgments xiii -- 1 Introduction 1 -- 2 Grammatical overview 39 -- 3 Segmental phonology 63 -- 4 Syllables 109 -- 5 Stress 133 -- 6 Tone and intonation 169 -- 7 Other word-level supra-segmental processes 201 -- 8 Nouns 217 -- 9 Verbs and the verbal complex 263 -- 10 Minor word classes 353 -- 11 Prosody: domains and interactions 401 -- 12 Noun phrases 451 -- 13 Basic clause types 465 -- 14 Sentence types 497 -- 15 Complex clauses and complex predication 537 -- Appendix A: Verbal suffixes 603 -- References 633 -- Index 657.