31.2200, Books: A Grammar of Sierra Popoluca: Boudreault

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Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 17:03:45
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: A Grammar of Sierra Popoluca: Boudreault

 


Title: A Grammar of Sierra Popoluca 
Series Title: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/2Vf1MRg 


Author: Lynda Boudreault

Paperback: ISBN:  9783110707984 Pages: 719 Price: U.S. $ 40.99


Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title.

Now in paperback.

This work is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Sierra Popoluca, a
Mixe-Zoquean language spoken by approximately 28,000 people in Veracruz,
Mexico. This detailed description and analysis includes an overview of the
language and its family, its typological features and its phonology. The
grammar also provides an overview of the word classes, including verbs, nouns,
relational nouns/postpositions, adjectives, adverbs, numbers, and formative
types.

The bulk of this grammar is devoted to the morphosyntax of Sierra Popoluca,
including nouns and nominal morphology, verbs and verbal morphology, and the
mechanisms for expressing tense, aspect, mood, and modality. An agglutinating,
polysynthetic, head-marking language with ergative-absolutive alignment and
sensitivity to animacy and saliency hierarchies, Sierra Popoluca has a number
of strategies to form complex predicates, which include verb serialization,
noun incorporation, and dependent verb constructions. These complex predicate
formation strategies and sentence-level syntax are also described here. A
compilation of interlinearized texts appears in the appendix. There is no
competing work that provides the breadth and depth of coverage of the Sierra
Popoluca grammar.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Popoluca, Highland (poi)


Written In: English  (eng)

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