Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Yaqui (yaq) Alternative Names  Hiaki, Yoeme, Jiak Family/Group  Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan Area  North America General Data  spoken in Sonora (Mexico) and Arizona (USA) Typological Information  • two contrastive pitches: high and low • SOV • no gender • rich system of verbal affixes • primarily suffixing, except for reduplication Reduplication Form-Function  • verb: V~, CV~, (C)VC~, (C)VCV~, CVV~, C gemination, secondary: CVCi • adjective: CV~ • denominal verbs Relationship Form-Function  various forms - various functions Reduplication System  • verbs: primary reduplication: red. of the first syllable; secondary reduplication: red. of the first syllable (CV) and the initial consonant (Ci) one morphological shape does not correspond to one particular meaning meanings could be: habitual, progressive, imperative, 'change of state', plural of participants • partial reduplication only Comments  Since there is a "reduplicative allomorphy" (Haugen 2005) in Yaqui reduplicated verbs, the formal description is the base of the present classification of 'reduplication types' concerning verbal reduplication. Forms  Select ValueC CV CVC CVCV CVV V   Functions  Select Valueother pluralization word class derivation Patterns  Select Valuepartial Semantics  Select Valueintensity other plurality   Word Classes  Select Valueadjective/adverb — adjective/adverb noun — verb verb — verb   All Examples  ⊟ References Dedrick, John M., Eugene H. Casad 1999. Sonora Yaqui Language Structure. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press  Harley, Heidi, Maria Amarillas 2002. Reduplication multiplication in Yaqui: meaning x form. Ms.  Haugen, Jason D. 2005. "Reduplicative allomorphy and language prehistory in Uto-Aztecan". 315-349   1 of 2       Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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