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Breviario gramatical náhuat-pipil
Author(s) -
Rafael Lara–Martínez
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
revista humanismo y cambio social
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2412-2572
pISSN - 2309-6713
DOI - 10.5377/hcs.v0i6.3523
Subject(s) - humanities , art , philosophy
The article describes several typological traits of Nahuat-Pipil language, the most important Native language from El Salvador. Nahuat-Pipil belongs to the Uto-Aztec family —Uto Nahua in Spanish— whose syntactic structure radically differs from Spanish to which is normally adapted. It is characterized by a word-sentence that marks almost all syntactic functions in the verb, while the so-called nominal phrases of subject, direct and indirect object are real adjunct and independent sentences. If this attribute is known as head-marking language, its poetic implications have been forgotten: a Borgean Aleph or point, which concentrates all other points or grammatical functions. Some additional concomitant typological traits are omni-predication, syntactic and aspectual serialism, as well as literary reiteration. Keywords: Linguistic Typology, Reiterative Omni-predicative and Head-Marking Languages, Salvadoran Native Languages.

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