Abstract: Mapudungun is an indigenous South American language spoken by a comparatively large number of people in Chile and Argentina. It has six vowels and relatively few consonants, with virtually no morphophonemic processes obscuring the agglutinative and predominantly suffixing morphology. Nominal morphology is almost exclusively derivational, and NPs are dependent-marked. Clauses are head-marked, and verbal morphology is intricate not only as to verbal compounding and nominal incorporation but also as to many grammatical categories marked on both finite and nonfinite predicates. The lexicon shows some influence of Quechua and Spanish.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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