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On the tightrope between infinitives and action nouns

Enrique L. Palancar
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In this paper, I study the distribution of two nominalization structures in two closely related Amerindian languages of Mexico (Eastern Otomi and Northern Otomi). The structures involve intransitive nominalizations depicting a customary activity performed by humans (‘hunting’, ‘sowing’, etc.) as they appear in a complementation frame. I address the question of whether these nominalization structures in Otomi are morphologically non-finite forms or are just nouns. I show how a cognate structure in two close languages can be found in the two opposing ends of a nominalization scale: in Eastern Otomi, the structure is inflectional and should be analyzed as an intransitive infinitive, while its equivalent in Northern Otomi should be seen as an action deverbal noun.

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hal-01493974 , version 1 (22-03-2017)

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Enrique L. Palancar. On the tightrope between infinitives and action nouns: The case of Otomi nominalizations. Claudine Chamoreau; Zarina Estrada. Finateness and Nominalization, 2016, ⟨10.1075/tsl.113.07pal⟩. ⟨hal-01493974⟩
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