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NERCESIAN, Verónica. Dialectal and diachronic variation of the pronominal object in Wichi/Weenhayek (Mataguayan): prefixing and suffixing paradigms. Cuad. Lingüíst. Col. Méx. [online]. 2019, vol.6, n.1, e127.  Epub 18-Fev-2020. ISSN 2007-736X.  https://doi.org/10.24201/clecm.v6i1.127.

Based on primary data and secondary sources, this paper analyzes the diatopic and diachronic variation of the pronominal object, which distinguishes the Pilcomayeño and Bermejeño dialectal groups in Wichi/Weenhayek language (Mataguayan family, Argentina and Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia). Whereas the Pilcomayeño dialect employs a prefix in non-derived and causative-derived predicates, and a suffix, in predicates derived by locatives/directionals, the Bermejeño dialect employs a suffix in all syntactic contexts. We argue that the development of the prefixing object in the Pilcomayeño follows the typological correlation to the VO word order, and develops from a change of lexeme>grammatical morpheme. In a different way, the suffixing paradigm in predicates with locatives/directionals in both dialectal groups mirrors the old word order in the asymmetrical serial verb construction and develops from a reanalysis of this construction. This reanalysis leads, also, the grammaticalization of the locatives and directionals from verbal roots. Syntactic cognates in the language family lead us to propose the hypothesis that this syntactic reanalysis could at least have started in the Proto-Mataguayan. Finally, we argue that the Bermejeño dialect regularized the object paradigm to suffixes, and thus, separating from the Mataguayan language family and leading the change.

Palavras-chave : syntactic change; object paradigms; variation; Wichi Weenhayek; Mataguayan family.

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