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Marking Grammatical Relations In Southeastern Tepehuan, Thomas L. Willett
Marking Grammatical Relations In Southeastern Tepehuan, Thomas L. Willett
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis analyzes, from a Relational Grammar point of view, the usages of several verb suffixes of Southeastern Tepehuan that deal with the relationships among the central arguments of the predicate of a clause. The verb word in Southeastern Tepehuan contains all the information of tense, aspect, and mode, and is modified by adverbial elements of time, manner, and location. Nouns and pronouns can be used to identify one of the arguments; and conjunctions coordinate the resulting clause with, or subordinate it to, other clauses.
Only two affixes are used to denote person and number of the central arguments (terms) …
Word-Shortening In Southeastern Tepehuan, Elizabeth R. Willett
Word-Shortening In Southeastern Tepehuan, Elizabeth R. Willett
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is a technical description of the phonological rules and processes of Tepehuan, with many examples in the practical orthography. By taking the position that vowel length and open syllables are underlying in SET, I predict accent placement on all forms. In addition, phonetic forms of stems are predicted by a set of rules coordinating with accent. This phonological system has the result of reducing the length of words and highlighting their accent centers.
All final single vowels drop; this reduces the length of the word by one syllable, and makes the penultimate syllable into a closed final syllable. …