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Table 2.14: Modern Omagua Demonstratives
ms
fs
prox akia amai
dist yuká yukú
(2.35) k w aRaSi, yas1, sesukana, w1Rakana, 1watakana weRanu, to maRitipa aikiaRakana Dios muRa?
k w aRaSi yas1 sesu =kana
sun moon star =pl.ms
aikiaRa
dem.prox.ms.pro
=kana
=pl.ms
w1Ra =kana
bird =pl.ms
Dios muRa
God 3sg.ms
1wata =kana weRanu to maRi =tipa
forest =pl.ms coord ? what =interr
‘The sun, the moon, the stars, the birds and the forests, which of these is God?’
(example (5.6a))
Table 2.15 summarizes non-numeral quantifiers in modern Omagua. 69
Table 2.15: Modern Omagua Non-numeral Quantifiers
Omagua
upa
upai 70
upaimai
amua
nimakatin ∼
nimakatimai
aw1R1ka
mimikatu
Sita 71
Gloss
all
every
every kind of
(an)other
no, any
some, few (count)
some, little (mass)
much, many
The order of prenominal modifiers in modern Omagua is summarized in Table 2.16. 72 Note that
quantifiers (Table 2.15) and numerals do not co-occur. 73 The ordering of prenominal modifiers is a
point of variation between the two catechism texts, which we discuss as part of §9.4.
69 Native Omagua numerals range from ‘one’ to ‘four’, with ‘five’ and higher borrowed from Quechua. They may
function as pre-nominal modifiers or stand alone as arguments, and in the latter case the suffix -tai may encode a
definite group (e.g., English ‘two of them’ versus ‘the two of them’). In the ecclesiastical texts the numerals uyepe
‘one’ (modern Omagua wipi) and musap1R1ka ‘three’ are attested.
70 Modern Omagua upai ‘every’ is restricted to a set of frozen expressions, including upai k w aRaSi ‘every day’, upai
makati ‘everywhere’ (Sp. por todas partes), upai maRi ‘everything’, and upaiRupI ‘everywhere’ (Sp. por todos lados).
71 The quantifier Sita may also function as a stative verb meaning ‘be much, be many’, and there is strong comparative
evidence to believe that this was the original function in Proto-Omagua-Kokama. We suspect that the extension
from a stative verb to a pre-nominal modifier is the result of influence from Spanish.
72 quant = quantifier; dem = demonstrative; num = numeral; poss = possessor.
73 See Table 2.5 for a summary of postnominal elements in the noun phrase.
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