Person marking in Ja'a Kumiai - Caballero and Cheng
Marcación de persona en el kumiai de Ja'a - Caballeo y Cheng
Object Details
| Subject Language | Central Diegueño (Kumiai) |
| Language PID(s) | ailla:119745 |
| Title [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Title | |
| Title | Person marking in Ja'a Kumiai - Caballero and Cheng |
| Language Community | |
| Country(ies) | United States |
| Place Created | San Diego, California, USA |
| Date Created | 2018-02 |
| Description [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Description | |
| Description | From the introduction to the paper: Ja'a Kumiai is a language in the Yuman language family that is spoken in Baja California, Mexico, with a high degree of linguistic obsolescence and has only been preliminarily documented. In this work we contribute ot the description and documentation of this variant and present an analysis of its verb agreement system and the factors that govern its morphophonological and morphosyntactic expression. Other varieties of Kumiai have been described with complex person marking systems that rely on a set of prefixes for intransitive verbs and a set of subject-object portmanteau prefixes for for transitive verbs that exhibit variable or optional realization of laryngeal characteristics in their phonological expression (e.g., Miller 2001). One aspect that is emphasized in the grammatical description of these varieties is the fact that there is a high degree of inter- and intra-linguistics variation that transcends person marking and includes variation in lexical, phonological, and morphological domains of these languages (Kroeber & Harrington, 1914; Walker, 1970; Langdon, 1976, 1991; Miller, 1991, 2001; Miller & Langdon, 2008; Field 2012). This high degree of variation has been attributed to language contact patterns (Gil Burgoin 2016), different language ideologies with respect to dialectal variation (Field, 2012), or patterns of erosion of contrasts caused by the critical degree of obsolescence (Miller 2001), but the lack of detailed studies of the Kumiai varieties spoken on the southern side of the United States border preclude alternative explanations. |
| Genres | Article |
| Source Note | |
| References | |
| Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Caballero, Gabriela (Author) Cheng, Qi (Author) |
| Contributor(s) Corporate / Role |
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