Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Acoma (kjq) Alternative Names  Western Keres Pueblo Family/Group  Keres, Western Keres Area  North America General Data  spoken in New Mexico (USA) Typological Information  • 3 tonal accents (high ´, falling ^, glottal ʼ) • no dominant word order Reduplication Form-Function  • partial: pluralization • full: pluralization, lexical enrichment Relationship Form-Function  various forms - various functions Reduplication System  • pluralization functions are expressed by full reduplication of monosyllabic stems (without morphophonemic changes) while disyllabic stems only reduplicate their second syllable, often with accompanying accent changes (cf. Miller 1965: 80) • a number of stems always occur in reduplicated form and do not indicate (distributive) plural meaning (cf. Miller 1965: 154; for examples see Miller 1965: 154-156) Forms  Select ValueCV stem   Functions  Select Valuelexical enrichment pluralization Patterns  Select Valuefull partial Semantics  Select Valuecontinuity plurality similarity   Word Classes  Select Valueadjective/adverb — noun verb — verb   All Examples  ⊟ References Miller, Wick R. 1965. Acoma Grammar and Texts. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press; (relevant pages: 80-85; 154-157)     Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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