Nominal compounds in Mapudungun

Zúñiga, Fernando (2014). Nominal compounds in Mapudungun. In: Danielsen, Swintha; Hannss, Katja; Zúñiga, Fernando (eds.) Word Formation in South American Languages. Studies in Language Companion Series: Vol. 163 (pp. 11-31). Amsterdam: John Benjamins 10.1075/slcs.163.02zun

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It is perhaps unsurprising that the rich agglutinative-polysynthetic verb morphology of Mapudungun has drawn most attention in linguistic studies. So far unnoticed in the literature are Mapudungun complex noun phrases, which show a puzzling distribution in terms of the internal structure they display. Some complex NPs are head-final (mapu-che ‘people of the land’). Others are head-initial, and of these a subset appears to be less lexicalized. In some cases, all three possibilities are found with the same components: mamüll-che ‘wood people’, che-mamüll ‘people made of wood’, and che mamüll ‘wood-like people’. The present paper reviews the comparatively modest literature on these phenomena, deals with them in an account based on semantic factors, and places them in a broader typological context.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Linguistics
UniBE Contributor:	Zúñiga, Fernando
Subjects:	400 Language > 410 Linguistics 400 Language > 490 Other languages
ISBN:	978-9027259288
Series:	Studies in Language Companion Series
Publisher:	John Benjamins
Language:	English
Submitter:	Fernando Zúñiga
Date Deposited:	26 Nov 2014 17:32
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:38
Publisher DOI:	10.1075/slcs.163.02zun
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Mapudungun, nominal compound, head-final, head-initial, nonhead, complex noun phrases, modification, subordination
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/60227