Conjunction in Colonial Valley Zapotec
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2016
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Tri-College (Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges). Department of Linguistics
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The Linguistics Prize in Linguistic Theory
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Colonial Valley Zapotec (CVZ) was spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico, dur- ing the colonial period; the language is attested a set of printed texts and handwritten documents. In this paper I discuss the four primary conjunctions strategies in CVZ: chela, huanee, =la, and asyndetic con- junction. These conjunction strategies are used interchangeably in CVZ (x2) and throughout a wide time frame and geographic area (x3). In some passages, a scribe alternates between di erent conjunction strategies to emphasize semantic and syntactic groupings within the construction. To explain these constructions I introduce a theory of localized seman- tic/syntactic sensitivity, an expansion of the current typology of conjunc- tion (x4).