Pima Bajo

Pima Bajo is a Uto-Aztecan language from the Tepiman branch spoken by no more than 500 persons. The Pima Bajo country is located in the Southeastern part of Sonora Mexico, and also in the Central Western part of Chihuahua in Mexico. The study is based mainly on the unpublished data collected in Yepáchic Chihuahua which in comparison with the Pima Bajo spoken in Sonora is less innovative. References to Névome, an older Piman variety from a document written between 1621 and 1672, are made. The volume contains: A sociolinguistic setting of the ethnic group. A brief description of the phonemic inventory, the phonological processes, the stress and the syllable. An outline of the morphology of the language. The syntax part discusses clause structure and the syntax of arguments for independent and dependent constructions. Emphasis is given to pronouns and the way they are used as arguments of a predicate. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 2 0. Introduction......Page 4 1.1 Consonants......Page 6 1.2 Vowels......Page 7 2. Phonological processes......Page 8 2.2 Vowels......Page 9 2.3 Metathesis......Page 10 3.1 Nouns......Page 11 3.2 Adjectives......Page 15 3.3 Verbs......Page 22 4. Syntaxs......Page 19 4.2 Modifiers......Page 20 4.3 Order within the noun phrase......Page 23 4.4 Personal pronouns......Page 24 4.5 Grammatical functions......Page 25 4.6 Postpositional Phrases......Page 29 4.7 Sentence Formation......Page 30 4.9.1 Negative Sentences......Page 33 4.9.2 Interrogative Sentences......Page 34 4.9.3 Imperative Sentences......Page 35 5.1 Coordination......Page 36 5.2 Relative Clauses......Page 38 5.3 Complement Clauses......Page 40 5.4 Adverbial Sentences......Page 41 6. Text......Page 44 References......Page 49 Index......Page 51