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Zamucoan Person Marking as a Perturbed System* [PDF]
Studia Linguistica, 2021 Abstract This paper analyzes the Zamucoan system of Person markers: personal pronouns, verbal and possessive inflection. Comparing the three documented languages (Ayoreo and Chamacoco, currently spoken, and extinct Old Zamuco), one can reconstruct for a very ancient stage of this language family an agglutinating structure for both personal pronouns and
Pier Marco Bertinetto
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Zamucoan ethnonymy in the 18th century and the etymology of Ayoreo
Journal De La Societe Des Americanistes, 2021 This study presents new data on Zamucoan ethnonymy and solves an etymological problem concerning the term Ayoreo. The earliest documented Zamucoan language is Old Zamuco, spoken in the 18th century in the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos and close to present-
Luca Ciucci
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Parataxis, hypotaxis and para-hypotaxis in the Zamucoan languages
Linguistic Discovery, 2012 The term "para-hypotaxis" is commonly used by Romance linguists to refer to sentences containing a proleptic dependent clause, with the main clause introduced by a coordinator.
Luca Ciucci
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Possessive inflection in Proto-Zamucoan
Diachronica, 2017 This paper presents a comparative analysis of possessive inflection in the three known Zamucoan languages: Ayoreo and Chamacoco – still spoken in the Chaco area between Bolivia and Paraguay – plus †Old Zamuco, described by the Jesuit father Ignace Chomé in the first half of the 18th century.
Luca Ciucci
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“Antropologia” e antropologia: histórias de um fazedor-de-antropologia Ayoreo
Mundo Amazónico, 2019 This essay closes in on, through the history of an Ayoreo man - a Zamucoan speaking that inhabits the Central Chaco region - an image of an encounter between certain contents coming from the disciplinary field of anthropology with certain modes of ...
Leif Grunewald
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Tenselessness in South American indigenous languages with focus on Ayoreo (Zamuco)
Liames, 2014 Después de definir el concepto de tenselessness ‘atemporalidad’, este artículo presenta argumentos para tratar el ayoreo (con morfología verbal altamente pobre) como una lengua extrema que carece de marcadores de tiempo.
Pier Marco Bertinetto
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A comparative wordlist for the languages of The Gran Chaco, South America. [PDF]
Open Res Eur, 2022 Brid N, Messineo C, List JM.
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Multi-variate coding for possession: methodology and preliminary results. [PDF]
Linguistics, 2023 Chousou-Polydouri N +3 more
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Language secrecy and concealment in Chamacoco (Zamucoan).
, 2023 This study addresses language secrecy and concealment in Chamacoco, with particular reference to the so-called Ebitoso dialect, spoken by the vast majority of Chamacoco people. Secrecy and concealment involving Chamacoco manifest themselves into four aspects: (i) the secrecy of the Chamacoco Indigenous religion, which resulted in linguistic taboos ...
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, 2022 The comparison of two late colonial documents of the Chiquitos Governerate and the Mato Grosso Captaincy shows that Chiquitano- and Zamucoan-speaking indigenous people from Chiquitos (now Bolivia) played a leading role in the foundation of Vila Maria do Paraguai, contrary to the most widespread versions that argue their Arawak and Otuqui affiliation ...
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