Noun and Verb Morphology in Wounan Language

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  • Luz Adriana Arboleda Vásquez University of Antioquia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n69a16

Keywords:

Wounan language, descriptive linguistics, noun morphology, verb morphology

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the main morphological units related to the noun and the verb in Wounan, an Amerindian language spoken by the Wounan community, located in the Pacific region of Colombia. This study is the result of the analysis of data obtained in six periods of fieldwork carried out between 1998 and 2014. It constitutes a research from the perspective of descriptive linguistics.

 

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Author Biography

Luz Adriana Arboleda Vásquez, University of Antioquia

Anthropologist from the University of Antioquia. Master in Ethnolinguistics from the Universidad de los Andes. PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Antioquia and associate professor at the same university. Member of the Sociolinguistic Studies Group (GES). Research areas: ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics, descriptive linguistics, Wounan language.

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Published

2016-05-04

How to Cite

Arboleda Vásquez, L. A. (2016). Noun and Verb Morphology in Wounan Language. Lingüística Y Literatura, 37(69), 363–384. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n69a16

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