Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona is involved.
2024 The tonal morphology of the potential in Coatec Zapotec (Di′zhke′): Implications for early Zapotecan tone, *ʔ, and verb classes through internal and comparative reconstruction Journal of Historical Linguistics 14:2, pp. 179–241 | Article
While the phenomenon of tonogenesis is well represented in the literature, diachronic tone change in already-tonal languages has received less attention. This paper considers two types of tonal morphology used to mark the “potential” inflectional category on verbs in Coatec Zapotec (aka… read more
2023 Realis morphology and Chatino’s role in the diversification of Zapotec languages Diachronica 40:4, pp. 439–491 | Article
This paper concerns a semantic change whereby a continuous aspect prefix was reinterpreted as marking realis mood. This change took place in Chatino and then diffused to the Southern Zapotec subgroup, contributing to the genetic diversification of the Zapotec languages. Proto-Zapotecan marked… read more
2023 The historical dialectology of stative morphology in Zapotecan Journal of Historical Linguistics 13:1, pp. 115–172 | Article
This paper updates the reconstruction of the stative aspect prefix in Proto-Zapotecan as *n- and tracks innovations in stative marking. An early change is proposed to have deleted preconsonantal nasals, rendering segmentally unmarked stative forms of consonant-initial verbs in varieties of… read more
2017 Chapter 3. Spanish infinitives borrowed into Zapotec light verb constructions Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, Dakin, Karen, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein (eds.), pp. 55–80 | Chapter
Spanish infinitives are commonly borrowed into Zapotec languages. The borrowed infinitive construction is here analyzed as a special type of light verb construction. In Southern Zapotec languages the construction occurs in a transitive version using ‘do’ and an intransitive version using ‘become’.… read more
2015 Chapter 8. Valency-changing devices in two Southern Zapotec languages Valence Changes in Zapotec: Synchrony, diachrony, typology, Operstein, Natalie and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein (eds.), pp. 139–174 | Article
This article describes morphological strategies that change the valence of verbs in two Southern Zapotec languages: Coatec Zapotec and Miahuatec Zapotec. These strategies include noun incorporation, causative and anticausative morphemes. Due to historical phonological changes some morphology has… read more