The morphosyntactic status of animacy markers in San Andres Yaa Zapotec.

Southwest Journal of Linguistics | December 1, 2007| | Copyright

ABSTRACT. In San Andres Yaa Zapotec, adjectives used predicatively are often preceded by a morpheme marked for animacy: bi' for humans (HUM), be' for animals (ANIM), and da' for inanimates (INAN). In this paper, I demonstrate that such animacy markers are bound nominal elements used to nominalize adjectives, demonstratives, and relative clauses, related to similar morphemes in closely-related Zapotec languages (e.g. Yatzachi el Bajo Zapotec (Butler 1988) and Zoogocho Zapotec (Sonnenschein 2005)).

First, I show that in addition to occurring in predicate position, a ...

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