33.3769, Books: A grammar of Choguita Rarámuri: Caballero

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Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 16:51:28
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: A grammar of Choguita Rarámuri: Caballero

 


Title: A grammar of Choguita Rarámuri 
Subtitle: In collaboration with Luz Elena León Ramírez, Sebastián Fuentes Holguín,
Bertha Fuentes Loya and other Choguita Rarámuri language experts 
Series Title: Comprehensive Grammar Library  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/324 


Author: Gabriela Caballero

Electronic: ISBN:  978396110399 Pages: 684 Price: Europe EURO 0


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Tarahumara, Southeastern (tcu)

Language Family(ies): Uto-Aztecan


Written In: English  (eng)

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