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These phonological processes have guided our transliteration <strong>of</strong> the Jesuit texts, as in some cases<br />
the underlying form <strong>of</strong> a personal pronoun is not obvious due to processes <strong>of</strong> vowel coalescence and<br />
deletion reflected in the original orthography.<br />
2.2.2 Nominal Morphology<br />
Nominal morphology in both Old Omagua and the modern language, with the exception <strong>of</strong> one<br />
endocentric nominalizer, consists exclusively <strong>of</strong> clitics. We analyze the Omagua noun phrase as<br />
consisting <strong>of</strong> a number <strong>of</strong> morphologically fixed positions, occupied by functionally distinct clitics.<br />
One prenominal position is filled by pronominal proclitics that encode the person and number <strong>of</strong> a<br />
possessor (§2.2.1). A series <strong>of</strong> postnominal positions may be occupied by an endocentric nominalizer<br />
(§2.2.3.2.4), augmentative or diminutive marker (§2.2.2.2), a nominal past tense marker (§2.2.2.3),<br />
plural markers (§2.2.2.1), oblique-licensing postpositions (§2.3.3) and an intensifier =katu, as is<br />
illustrated in Table 2.5. 23<br />
Table 2.5: Modern Omagua Noun Phrase Structure<br />
poss= noun -nomz =aug/dim =tense =num =obl =intsf<br />
2.2.2.1 Number<br />
Plural number for NPs is expressed by the NP enclitic =kana pl.ms, as in (2.1).<br />
(2.1) k w aRaSi, yas1, sesukana, w1Rakana, 1watakana weRanu, to maRitipa aikiaRakana Dios muRa?<br />
k w aRaSi yas1 sesu =kana<br />
sun moon star =pl.ms<br />
aikiaRa<br />
dem.prox.ms.pro<br />
=kana<br />
=pl.ms<br />
w1Ra =kana<br />
bird =pl.ms<br />
Dios muRa<br />
God 3sg.ms<br />
1wata =kana weRanu to maRi =tipa<br />
forest =pl.ms coord ? what =interr<br />
‘The sun, the moon, the stars, the birds and the forests, which <strong>of</strong> these is God?’<br />
(example (5.6a))<br />
In modern Omagua, plural marking is optional when numerals occur in the noun phrase. In the<br />
ecclesiastical texts, however, plural marking, with one exception, is found even when numerals are<br />
present, as in (2.2). 24<br />
(2.2) aikiaRa musap1R1ka personakanasui, maniamaitipa awa uwaka 1m1nua?<br />
aikiaRa<br />
dem.prox.ms<br />
1m1nua<br />
long.ago<br />
musap1R1ka<br />
three<br />
persona<br />
person<br />
=kana =sui maniamai =tipa awa uwaka<br />
=pl.ms =abl which =interr man transform<br />
23 poss = possessor; nomz = nominalizer; aug = augmentative; dim = diminutive; num = number; obl = oblique<br />
(i.e., oblique-licensing postposition); intsf = intensifier.<br />
24 The exception involves plural marking on the Spanish loan word Dios ‘God’.<br />
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