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Continuity and Change in Modern Nahuatl Word Formation

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dc.abstract.enThe paper presents an analysis of Nahuatl coinages for six artifacts: ‘bicycle,’ ‘car,’ ‘clock,’ ‘key,’ ‘pen,’ and ‘umbrella,’ as attested in interviews with speakers from four communities in Mexico. These artifacts have been selected because of their shared characteristics: the terms for them do not belong to the core vocabulary; they tend to be referred to with Spanish loanwords or with terms created ad hoc using descriptive phrases; the non-borrowed terminology for them is highly varied. The analysis reveals that, despite the ongoing process of language shift and pervasive borrowing from Spanish, new terminology continues to be created in Nahuatl both innovatively and according to established patterns of word formation inherited from previous stages of language contact. This suggests that even a situation of language marginalization, displacement and massive substitutive borrowing, does not impair speakers’ ability to create new lexemes according to established patterns, or the ability to innovate morphosemantic patterns.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorGruda, Szymon
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-24T20:46:57Z
dc.date.available2024-01-24T20:46:57Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.description.number1
dc.description.volume15
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/19552629-BJA10038
dc.identifier.issn1955-2629
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/103683
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://brill.com/view/journals/jlc/15/1/article-p71_002.xml
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationlinguistics
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Language Contact
dc.relation.pages71-109
dc.rightsClosedAccess
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dc.subject.enNahuatl
dc.subject.enlanguage endangerment
dc.subject.enlanguage decay
dc.subject.enword formation
dc.subject.enmorphological productivity
dc.titleContinuity and Change in Modern Nahuatl Word Formation
dc.typeJournalArticle
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