Herce, Borja. 2021. Possessive inflection in Chichimec inalienable nouns: The morphological organization of a closed irregular class. Studies in Language 46, 4: 901-933.
Herce, Borja. 2021. Possessive inflection in Chichimec inalienable nouns: The morphological organization of a closed irregular class. Studies in Language 46, 4: 901-933.
Summary: The paper contains a thorough description of how possessor person and number are expressed morphologically on Chichimec (Otomanguean) nouns. This is a remarkably complex system where most segments along the word can change or remain stable depending on the lexeme. Prefixes, stems, and tone all play a role in expressing the relevant morphological contrasts but this is done in a quite unpredictable way.