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Word accent and mapping rules in Yurakaré

van Gijn, Rik

In: Morphology, 2014, vol. 24, no. 3, p. 223-244

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    Title
    • Word accent and mapping rules in Yurakaré
    Author
    • van Gijn, Rik. Dept. of comparative linguistics, University of Zürich, Plattenstrasse 54, 8032, Zürich, Switzerland
    Document Type
    • Postprint
    OAI-PMH Identifier
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:326332
    Summary
    This paper looks in detail at stress assignment in the Bolivian isolate language Yurakaré, one of the few processes in the language that require the phonological-word (p-word) as its domain of application. In terms of stress assignment, the p-word in Yurakaré interacts not only with the morphological component, but also with the syntactic component. Moreover, morphological interference with the prosodic component seems to start below the level of the p-word. I argue that these complex, conditional mappings can be thought of as either structurally conditioned diachronic remnants of grammaticalized items or as functionally motivated peculiarities.