Property Concepts in Otomi: A Language with No Adjectives

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 01 Jul 2006 United Kingdom English Publisher:University of Chicago PressJournal:International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 72, pages 325-366 (issn: 0020-7071, eissn: 1545-7001,

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Authors: Palancar, EL;

doi: 10.1086/509489

Property Concepts in Otomi: A Language with No Adjectives

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In this article, I study the way property concepts such as ‘big’, ‘red’, ‘high’, etc., are lexically treated in Otomi, an Otomanguean language from Central Mexico. I show in detail that such concepts are not encoded as adjectives but rather as verbs and nouns. Lexemes denoting such concepts also occur in an interesting type of nominal compound. The present analysis is based on the dialect of San Ildefonso Tultepec Otomi, but the claims made can be extended to other Otomi variants.

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Autonomous University of Queretaro
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University of Surrey
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