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Tipología Del Género En Lenguas Indígenas De América Del Sur UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR TESIS DE DOCTORADO EN LETRAS Tipología del género en lenguas indígenas de América del Sur (T OMO 2) María Alejandra Regúnaga BAHIA BLANCA ARGENTINA 2011 ÍNDICE TOMO 2 CAPÍTULO 4 Sistemas de género y clasificadores 1. Introducción .......................................................................................................... 214 2. Criterios de asignación en los sistemas de categorización.................................... 215 2.1. Motivación en la asignación de género .............................................................. 217 2.1.1. Inanimados ...................................................................................................... 218 2.1.2. Cuerpos celestes .............................................................................................. 219 2.1.3. Animados no humanos.................................................................................... 221 2.1.4. Humanos.......................................................................................................... 224 2.2. Asignación de clasificadores.............................................................................. 227 3. Clasificación nominal y concordancia .................................................................. 230 3.1. Pronombres......................................................................................................... 231 3.2. Artículos............................................................................................................. 237 3.3. Demostrativos..................................................................................................... 238 3.4. Numerales........................................................................................................... 240 3.5. Adjetivos ............................................................................................................ 249 3.6. Posesión.............................................................................................................. 253 4. Clasificadores ........................................................................................................ 260 5. Síntesis del capítulo............................................................................................... 266 CAPÍTULO 5 Género, clases nominales y clasificadores 1. Introducción .......................................................................................................... 269 2. Criterios de asignación de género, clase y clasificadores ..................................... 270 2.1. Motivación en la asignación de los sustantivos ................................................. 271 2.1.1. Inanimados ...................................................................................................... 271 2.1.2. Cuerpos celestes .............................................................................................. 273 2.1.3. Animados no humanos.................................................................................... 273 2.1.4. Humanos.......................................................................................................... 274 3. Patrones de concordancia: género y clases ........................................................... 275 3.1. Pronombres......................................................................................................... 276 3.2. Artículos............................................................................................................. 278 3.3. Demostrativos..................................................................................................... 278 3.4. Numerales........................................................................................................... 279 3.5. Adjetivos ............................................................................................................ 280 3.6. Posesión.............................................................................................................. 281 4. Clasificadores ........................................................................................................ 284 5. Síntesis del capítulo............................................................................................... 287 CONCLUSIONES 1. Generales .................................................................................................... 289 2. Específicas.................................................................................................. 294 2.1 Lenguas con género ............................................................................................ 295 2.2. Lenguas con género, clases nominales y/o clasificadores.................................. 302 ABREVIATURAS ..................................................................................................... 322 BIBLIOGRAFÍA ....................................................................................................... 324 TOMO 1 NOTAS PRELIMINARES .......................................................................................... 9 INTRODUCCIÓN 1. La categorización como procedimiento cognitivo ................................................ 10 2. Clasificación ontológica y clasificación nominal.................................................. 14 3. El género gramatical en la historia de la lingüística ............................................. 19 4. Objetivos ............................................................................................................... 27 5. Consideraciones metodológicas ............................................................................ 29 5.1. La construcción de la muestra lingüística .......................................................... 29 5.2. El estudio de la categorización nominal desde la tipología lingüística................ 37 5.3. Acerca de las descripciones lingüísticas utilizadas ............................................ 39 CAPÍTULO 1 Fundamentos teórico-metodológicos 1. El concepto de marcación .................................................................................. 48 1.1. El surgimiento del concepto: Trubetzkoy y Jakobson .................................... 49 1.2. Los desarrollos del concepto de marcación en la tradición estructuralista ..... 54 1.2.1. Greenberg: la tipología lingüística ............................................................... 54 1.2.2. Andersen y Shapiro: la iconicidad ............................................................... 60 1.2.3. Givón: el funcionalismo............................................................................... 61 1.3. Críticas al concepto: Haspelmath.................................................................... 62 2. Tipología de los procedimientos de clasificación nominal ................................ 70 2.1. Género, clase nominal y clasificadores: los estudios fundacionales de Dixon y Allan ............................................................................................ 71 2.2. Correlaciones y parámetros: el aporte de Serzisko ......................................... 77 2.3. Los procedimientos basados en la concordancia: género y clase nominal según Corbett .......................................................................... 80 2.4. La ampliación del corpus : Australia y América.............................................. 87 CAPÍTULO 2 Sistemas de género 1. Introducción .......................................................................................................... 108 2. Criterios de asignación de género ......................................................................... 110 2.1. Motivación en la asignación de los sustantivos ................................................. 111 2.1.1. Inanimados ...................................................................................................... 111 2.1.2. Cuerpos celestes .............................................................................................. 116 2.1.3. Animados no humanos.................................................................................... 117 2.1.4. Humanos.......................................................................................................... 123 3. Patrones de concordancia...................................................................................... 127 3.1. Pronombres......................................................................................................... 128 3.2. Artículos............................................................................................................. 131 3.3. Demostrativos..................................................................................................... 132 3.4. Numerales........................................................................................................... 136 3.5. Adjetivos ............................................................................................................ 139 3.6. Posesión.............................................................................................................. 142 4. Marcación formal de género ................................................................................. 149 5. Síntesis del capítulo............................................................................................... 150 CAPÍTULO 3 Sistemas de género y clases nominales 1. Introducción .......................................................................................................... 152 2. Criterios
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