Title
Productivity and lexicalization in shipibo body-part prefixation
Date Issued
01 July 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
University of Chicago Press
Abstract
Shipibo, a Panoan language spoken in Amazonian Peru, has a set of 31 monosyllabic forms, representing mostly body parts, which are phonologically attached to the front of verbs, adjectives and nouns. For most of these morphemes, noun roots designating body parts exist which are semantically similar and whose initial segments are the same. Consequently, previous scholars have analyzed these prefixed forms as allomorphs of or otherwise synchronically derived from the noun roots. The present paper will present evidence demonstrating that Shipibo-Konibo body-part morphemes are independent prefixes and best analyzed as not being synchronically derived from body-part nouns. Furthermore, although body-part prefixation is quite productive in Shipibo, many lexicalized prefixed stems exist, which have undergone semantic and/or phonological changes. Therefore, a second goal of this paper is to provide a more accurate description of the grammar of Shipibo prefixation by identifying lexicalized stems and treating them separately.
Start page
327
End page
357
Volume
84
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Anatomía, Morfología
Subjects
DOI
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85049220061
Source
International Journal of American Linguistics
ISSN of the container
00207071
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