Pamela Munro

University of California, Los Angeles | UCLA · Department Of Linguistics

En este artículo, colaboran lingüistas e historiadores en la transcripción, traducción y análisis de un texto escrito en zapoteco del Valle de Oaxaca en 1614, hallado en el ramo de Tierras del Archivo General de la Nación. El documento fue entregado como evidencia en un litigio con respecto a un terreno entre don Gerónimo de Grijalva, cacique y pri...

Aquí presentamos la lengua y el contenido de un testamento escrito a más tardar en 1675 perteneciente a una mujer zapoteca llamada Sebastiana de Mendoza. Ofrecemos el contexto histórico para entender cómo y por qué fue escrito y preservado el documento, y resumimos lo que el manuscrito nos dice sobre la testamentaria. Hacemos observaciones sobre el...

After presenting some basic genetic, historical and typological information about Quichua, this chapter outlines the quantification patterns it expresses. It illustrates various semantic types of quantifiers, such as generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, definite and partitive which are defined in “The Quantifier Questionnai...

After presenting some basic genetic, historical and typological information about Chickasaw, this chapter outlines the quantification patterns it expresses. It illustrates various semantic types of quantifiers, such as generalized existential, generalized universal, proportional, definite and partitive which are defined in the Quantifier Questionna...

Chickasaw and Choctaw, the two Western Muskogean languages, have several different relative clause constructions, each of which is internally headed: (1) relative clauses with final demonstratives; (2) relative clauses in which the verb is marked with the suffix -kaash; and (3) relative clauses in which the verb is marked with a form of the complem...

Field linguistics refers to the collection of primary data on the basic grammatical facts of a relatively little studied language from ordinary speakers in a relatively natural setting, and to the analysis and dissemination of such data. This type of data collection is usually called “fieldwork”. The primary goal of field linguistics is to produce...

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp. 634-649

Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1976), pp. 308-318

What is “Field Linguistics”?How is “Field” Data Gathered?What to Ask a Speaker, and What a Speaker SaysAnalyzing the Data, and What to Do with ItContributions of Field Linguistics to Linguistic Theory and Other Scholarly WorkThe Highest Contribution

En este artículo examinamos la actuación de locativos de partes (es decir, locativos basados en partes del cuerpo o de cualquier otro objeto) en el zapoteco del Valle de Tlacolula y en el chickasaw y especificamos su categorización sintáctica, sus tipos de significado y la correlación (o falta de dicha correlación) entre la categorización sintáctic...

Zapotec languages indicate tense, aspect, and modality with “aspect” prefixes on verbs. The most widely used of these prefixes mark Habitual, Perfective (or Completive), and Irrealis (or Potential), but a number of languages have additional, sometimes less well understood, aspect forms. In this paper I consider two similar Zapotec aspect markers, o...

This paper explores patterns of length in domain‐final vowels in Chickasaw, a Western Muskogean language of south‐central Oklahoma. Vowel duration is correlated with constituent size such that vowels in final position of larger domains are longer than vowels in final position of smaller domains. The correlation between domain size and duration is o...

Making dictionaries is a vital aid to completing a full grammatical analysis of a language, particularly if the dictionary requires the specification of the part of speech for each entry. English (or “universal“) parts of speech may not be relevant in all languages, as can be shown by structural comparisons of “adjectives“ in San Lucas Quiaviní Zap...

In this paper we contrast component part locative systems in two languages. We show that component part locatives (CPLs) may be either prepositions, as in Tlacolula Valley Zapotec (TVZ; an Otomanguean language of central Oaxaca), or relational nouns, which have nominal syntax but express relational concepts, as in Chickasaw (a Muskogean language of...

Some items are especially difficult to put into a dictionary, either because it is hard to decide what form of the word or phrase to enter or because it is hard to decide how to translate the chosen entry and to explain or illustrate its grammatical use. In this paper I will survey some of the problems various such expressions pose for the fieldwor...

Chickasaw is a Muskogean language spoken in south-central Oklahoma. Published descriptions of Chickasaw phonetics include Munro & Willmond (1994), Munro (to appear), and Gordon et al. (2000). The following description is a summary of the principal phonetic aspects of Chickasaw drawn primarily from these works.

This paper provides a quantitative phonetic study of Chickasaw, a Muskogean language spoken in Oklahoma. Basic properties such as vowel quality, voice onset time, and consonant closure duration are examined and compared with the corresponding properties in other languages of the world. We also examine quantitative properties of the typologically un...

San Lucas Quiavini Zapotee (SLQZ) is a language with several thousand speakers ofall ages in the town ofSan Lucas Quiavini, Oaxaca, Mexico. With mycollaboratorFelipe Lopez, I have been involved for two years in studying this previously undescribed language of the Zapotecan family,1 through traditional linguistic fieldwork and the analysis of narrat...

In this paper I survey the II-series agreement prefixes of the Muskogean language family and propose a new reconstruction of this system of prefixes for Proto-Muskogean, extending the analysis of Booker (1980). The proposed reconstruction has significant implications for the classification of the Muskogean languages.

The Western Muskogean languages Chickasaw and Choctaw have a subject/oblique opposition in nominal case-marking and syntactic relations, despite their 'active' system of pronominal agreement. In both languages, case assignment may reflect the operation of productive relation-changing rules. These facts call into question the classification of Choct...

This paper proposes an underlying representation for passive sentences in Mojave and in Uto-Aztecan, and explores the broader issues that arise in extending the analysis to other languages and incorporating it in linguistic theory as a substantive language universal. In the introduction, this underlying representation is presented and discussed in...

The Zapotecs are the third largest indigenous ethnic group in Mexico (after the Nahuatls and Mayas), numbering over 400,000 in the 1990 census. Since the 1970s a great number of Zapotec people have immigrated from rural communities in Oaxaca (the Mexican state with the largest indigenous population) to the United States, where they initially work a...

Thesis--University of California, San Diego. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 321-325). Microfilm copy (positive) of typescript. -- Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1974. -- 1 reel ; 35 mm.