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- Title
Demorphologization of the proto-arawakan privative *ma- in Terena.
- Authors
de Carvalho, Fernando O.
- Abstract
This paper discusses the etymology of two lexical items of Terena, an Arawakan language from southwestern Brazil. Etymologization of the nouns mojénoti 'orphan' and moʃêu 'barren, sterile' shows that they preserve traces of the Proto-Arawakan Privative prefix *ma-, now demorphologized as part of synchronically unanalyzable roots. Since PA *ma- is reflected as mo- in Pre-Terena, Proto-Mojeño and Baure, the present work also provides evidence for the shared development *a > o, of still unclear conditioning, for the Bolivia-Paraná subgroup of the Arawakan language family, improving on an earlier formulation by Payne (1991). The paper also advances new lexical reconstructions to Proto-Mojeño, addresses phonological developments in Terena and Baure, and compares remnant cognate Gender-marking affixes in both Terena and Proto-Mojeño. Finally, a direct implication of the postulation of a Privative *mo- for a Pre-Terena stage is that the hypothesis that PA *ma- > o- in Terena, advanced by Danielsen, Dunn & Muysken (2011), can be safely rejected.
- Subjects
ETYMOLOGY; ARAWAKAN languages; PHONOLOGICAL awareness
- Publication
LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1678-0531
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.20396/liames.v19i1.8653947