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Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typologyEdited by Natalie Operstein and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein
[Typological Studies in Language 110] 2015
► pp. 213–236
Edited by Natalie Operstein and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein
[Typological Studies in Language 110] 2015
► pp. 213–236
Chapter 11. Changes in valence in San Andrés Yaá Zapotec
This paper discusses means, both productive and non-productive, by which a verb base’s valence in San Andrés Yaá Zapotec (SAYZ) may vary, seen within a larger typology within the Zapotecan language family, as part of an effort to enhance our understanding of Zapotecan verbal morphosyntax. First, the paper studies opposite-valence SAYZ verb bases involving the diachronic incorporation of the Proto-Zapotec causative morphemes *k-, *o- and *s(s)e-. Next, the paper describes productive mechanisms for increasing a verb’s valency: the suffix -l, which licenses an instrument or a patient, the comitative suffix -neen, and the clitic =x/=zh/=ch/=dzh ‘more’. Lastly, the paper studies reflexive and reciprocal morphemes, which arguably sometimes incorporate to a verb and decrease its valency.
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