26.4797, Books: Zaniza Zapotec: Operstein

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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:15:31
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Zaniza Zapotec: Operstein

 


Title: Zaniza Zapotec 
Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 504  

Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
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Book URL: http://bit.ly/1kTerol 


Author: Natalie Operstein

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862886593 Pages: 123 Price: Europe EURO 58.80


Abstract:

Zaniza Zapotec, known to its speakers as /ɾiʐ ziniz/ ‘the word/language of Zaniza’ or simply /ɾiʐ-n/ ‘our word/language’, is an Otomanguean language spoken in the town of Santa María Zaniza in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. The language is endangered and presently undocumented. The grammar outline presented in this book is based on the author’s fieldwork carried out in Mexico between 1999 and 2009, and is the first grammatical sketch of Zaniza Zapotec to appear in print.

Typical of Zapotec languages, Zaniza Zapotec has tones, stress, five vowel qualities, contrastive vowel phonations, and consonantal fortis-lenis contrast that comprises most of its twenty-seven consonant sounds. Its verbal system marks aspect and mood by prefixes; there is no overt morphological marking of tense. Most Zaniza Zapotec verbs come in opposite-valence pairs. In contrast to many related languages, there is a productive anti-causative/passive morpheme and an intricate system of interaction between negation and mood/aspect markers. Zaniza Zapotec has suppletion in both nouns and verbs, including with respect to the person of the recipient in the verb give. 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Zapotec, Zaniza (zpw)

Language Family(ies): Oto-Manguean/Otomanguean
                      Zapotec 


Written In: English  (eng)

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