Record Nr.

UNINA9910789639803321

Autore

Beck David

Titolo

Upper Necaxa Totonac dictionary [[electronic resource] /] / by David Beck

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, c2011

ISBN

1-283-39949-0

3-11-023823-3

9786613399496

3-11-023822-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (872 p.)

Collana

Trends in linguistics. Documentation, , 0179-8251 ; ; 28

Classificazione

EE 6426

Disciplina

497/.9

Soggetti

Totonac language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 855-861).

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Grammatical notes -- Chapter 3. Upper Necaxa Totonac dictionary -- a -- ch -- h -- i -- j -- k -- l -- lh' -- m -- n -- o -- p -- s -- t -- tz -- u -- w -- x -- y -- bound roots -- Chapter 4. Sample texts -- Appendices -- English-Upper Necaxa index -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

The Upper Necaxa Totonac Dictionary represents to-date the most extensive collection of lexical material for any member of the Totonac-Tepehua family and the only such record for this previously-undescribed polysynthetic language, currently spoken in two principal dialects by some 3,400 people, mainly adults, in the Sierra Norte of Puebla State, Mexico. As well as a short grammatical sketch, the dictionary comprises 9,000 lexical entries, including numerous fixed expressions, idioms, and ideophones; each lexical entry is accompanied by part-of-speech information and phonetic transcriptions as well as, where appropriate, dialectal information, grammatical notes (including plurals and classifiers for nouns), literal morpheme-by-morpheme glosses, example sentences, and cross-references to derived forms and semantically-related words. The accompanying DVD includes additional illustrative sentences, audio

recordings of headwords and examples, and interlinear glosses for many of the sentences included in lexical entries. This book is the first Totonacan dictionary to be structured for the academic linguist, with special attention paid to the morphological structure of words and the organization of the Totonacan lexicon. Glosses are constructed so as to reflect the underlying complement-structure of words, with careful indication of the number of arguments required by particular lexical items, and all verbs are classified by dynamicity and valency. This dictionary is of interest to linguists working on American indigenous languages, as well as those concerned with the structure of morphologically complex words and the role of derivation in the lexicon of polysynthetic languages. It is also of use to historical linguists and Mesoamericanists interested in the reconstruction of the pre-Columbian history and ethnogeography of Mexico.