Concordancia de número plural con participantes de 3ª persona  en el verbo en ñätho (otomí de San Felipe)

Néstor Hernández-Green

Vol. 2 No. 4 (2021), Artículos

Vol. 2 No. 4 (2021)

Plural number agreement with 3rd person participants in Ñätho (San Felipe Otomi) verbs

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Published 2021-12-13 — Updated on 2023-09-28

Néstor Hernández-Green⁺⁻

Néstor Hernández-Green

Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social

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Keywords

animacy
corpus analysis
morphosyntaxis
otopame
otomangue

How to Cite

Plural number agreement with 3rd person participants in Ñätho (San Felipe Otomi) verbs. (2023). Semas, 2(4), 9-34. https://semas.uaq.mx/index.php/ojs/article/view/66

Abstract

This paper describes the semantic, discursive, and grammatical conditions in which plural agreement in Ñätho verbs occurs with 3rd person participants in data from lin-guistic corpora. Plural number agreement seems to be governed by two typologically relevant hierarchies: animacy and topicality, in which referential, topical humans expressed before the verb are more frequently cross-referenced in it. In Ñätho, unlike in other Western Otomi languages, grammatical or thematic roles do not seem to play any important role in 3rd person plural agreement in the verb.

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