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(Anti-)cliticization in Mapudungun

2014; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 24; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s11525-014-9244-x

1871-5656

Fernando Zúñiga,

Linguistic Variation and Morphology

This article describes the formal behavior of some elements found in Mapudungun (isolate, South America): a question particle, a postposition, and several 3rd-person markers. Framed in terms of current theories of phonological and grammatical words, the paper argues that a useful characterization of the Mapudungun elements under scrutiny should acknowledge (a) that clitics are interestingly heterogeneous regarding how different bound elements stand in paradigmatic opposition to each other, and (b) that some of these elements can be meaningfully be called anti-clitics (i.e., they are p-words that are part of larger g-words).