Grammaticalization of Purpose Clauses in Pima Bajo
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This paper examines the strategies used in Pima bajo, a tepiman language of the Uto-Aztecan family spoken in Northwestern Mexico, to express purpose adverbial relations. Based on a mixed technique of analysis of 15 narratives and through elicitation, it was found that the main strategies used by this language are: aspect and irrealis markers, the position of the dependent clause related to the main clause, the connective ko and its relation to referentiality and the same subject marker =it. At the end of the discussion there is a proposal for the grammaticalization of the seemingly new clausal purpose marker vuikam.
Key words: Pima bajo, purpose clauses, grammaticalization
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