This article embeds an attempt at internal reconstruction of the pronominal roots of Mochica, an extinct language of the north coast of Peru, into broader comparative perspectives on the consonantism of pronominal paradigms. Mochica presents a case of so-called m-t pronouns (i.e., featuring a bilabial nasal in the first-person pronoun and an alveolar stop or affricate in the second-person pronoun), which is common in Eurasia but rare in the Americas and hitherto not explicitly discussed for South America. An internal reconstruction of pre-Mochica pronominal roots, while fraught with some difficulties that presumably cannot be resolved due to the nature of the available colonial documentation, confirms that the m-t consonantism pertains to the diachronically reconstructable pronominal roots. This finding reaffirms that even paradigmatic resemblances are not immune to the chance factor and underscores the previously advised caution in interpreting such patterns as evidence for deep linguistic prehistory.

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Mochica 代词：它们的内部重构及其对世界范围内代词形状范式相似性模式的意义

本文尝试将秘鲁北部海岸的一种已灭绝语言 Mochica 的代词词根进行内部重建，以更广泛的比较视角来研究代词范式的辅音。Mochica 提出了一个所谓的 mt 代词的例子（即，第一人称代词有双唇鼻音，第二人称代词有齿龈塞音或塞擦音），这在欧亚大陆很常见，但在美洲很少见，迄今为止还没有明确讨论了南美洲。对前莫奇卡代词词根的内部重建，虽然充满了一些可能由于可用殖民文献的性质而无法解决的困难，但证实了 mt 辅音与历时可重建的代词词根有关。