A grammar of Choguita Rar疥uri (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783985540570)

This book provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Choguita Rar疥uri, 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 Rar疥uri 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 Rar疥uri 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 Rar疥uri 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, Garc僘 Salido 2014, Reyes Taboada 2014, Morales Moreno 2016, Villalpando Quinez 2019, inter alia), many varieties still lack comprehensive linguistic description and documentation. Contributor biographies Choguita elder +Luz Elena Le Ram叝ez was a master storyteller and an invaluable source of linguistic, cultural and historical knowledge. She contributed many narratives to the corpus, including procedural texts, historical narratives, descriptions of culturally relevant events in the comm

Author: Gabriela Caballero
ISBN-10: 3985540578
ISBN-13: 9783985540570
Publisher: Language Science Press
Language: English
Published: 11/08/2022
Pages: 684
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.82lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.44d