Inflectional complexity and verb classes in Chichimec
Abstract
In this paper, we show that the verbal inflection of Chichimec displays an interesting degree of
complexity. Such complexity is created by the intersection of three different inflectional
subsystems. One of such systems is the one formed by the inflectional classes of prefixes
encoding person of subject and tense/aspect/mood. A second and partially independent
subsystem involves a rich array of stem alternation patterns while a third one involves the
inflectional use of tone, which is, for the most part, lexically specified.
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