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Title:		Chapter 10. Revisiting the source: Dependent verbs in Sierra Popoluca (Mixe-Zoquean)
Bibliographic Citation:		Boudreault, Lynda; 2010-05; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4457.
Creator:		Boudreault, Lynda
Date (W3CDTF):		2010-05
Description:		Sierra Popoluca (SP) is a Mixe-Zoquean language, spoken by about 28,000 individuals in southern Veracruz, Mexico. The objectives of this paper are (1) to explore the structures of dependent verb constructions in SP and the contexts in which they occur and (2) to highlight the stages in which data is gathered and the interplay between text collection, elicitation, and analysis. SP is an ergative, polysynthetic, head-marking language. It has five dependent verb construction types. Early analyses suggested that dependent verbs were non-finite, nominalized forms. Further research indicated that the verbs are components in complex predicates that share inflection for aspect/mood, person, and number. Implicated in the analysis of these constructions are: the prosodic system; the alignment system, which is hierarchically driven with split ergativity; and the number system, also hierarchically driven. The teasing apart of the various grammatical features led to a multi-step process of analyzing and collecting data. By looking at a complex grammatical structure, this paper highlights the interdependency of corpus building, text analysis, and elicitation and the strategies used to negotiate between naturally occurring speech, in which data may be obscured by phonology, and elicited data, which frequently produces periphrastic constructions or alternative utterance types.
		National Foreign Language Resource Center
Format:		39 pages
Identifier:		Boudreault, Lynda. 2010. Revisiting the source: Dependent verbs in Sierra Popoluca (Mixe-Zoquean). In Andrea L. Berez, Jean Mulder, & Daisy Rosenblum (eds.), Fieldwork and Linguistic Analysis in Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 223-261. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
		978-0-8248-3530-9
Identifier (URI):		http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4457
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Publisher:		University of Hawai'i Press
Relation:		LD&C Special Publication 2
Rights:		Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License
Subject:		dependent verb
		Sierra Popoluca
		Mixe-Zoquean
		Mexico
		corpus
		text analysis
		elicitation
Table Of Contents:		10boudreault.pdf
Type:		Book Chapter
Type (DCMI):		Text
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