TIIPAY (JAMUL)
SUMMARY
Jamul Tiipay has a switch-reference system in which kinship and certain alienable possessive relations between subjects can license same-subject markers. Possessed nouns are marked with possessive prefixes (for kinship terms) or a prefix indicating that a possessive relation is alienable as well as an optional possessor phrase.
LANGUAGE PROFILE
ISO 639-3:
dih
WALS ID:
tja
LOCATION:
Baja California, Mexico
CO-ORDINATES:
32°10'N, 116°30'W
AFFILIATION:
Hokan, Yuman
EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF PIPS
- Possessed kinship terms are marked with possessive prefixes. Possessed nouns can be otherwise marked with a prefix indicating that a possessive relation is alienable.
- Since expression of the possessor itself as a pronoun on noun phrase is optional, possession may be indicated by nominal morphology alone.
- Prominent possessors appear to occupy the same syntactic position as other possessors within the NP.
- Evidence for the internal status of possessors comes from adnominal absolute case-marking on the possessor.
KEY SOURCES
Miller, Amy. 2001. A grammar of Jamul Tiipay. Berlin: de Gruyter.
