Date: 18-Jan-2007 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Deixis and Alignment: Zúñiga
Title: Deixis and Alignment
Subtitle: Inverse systems in indigenous languages of the Americas
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 70
Published: 2006
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Author: Fernando Zúñiga
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027229823 Pages: 309 Price: Europe EURO 120.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027229823 Pages: 309 Price: U.S. $ 144.00
Abstract:
This book proposes an notion of inverse that differs from two widespread positions found in descriptive and typological studies (one of them restrictive and structure-oriented, the other broad and function-centered). The third stance put forward here takes both grammar and pragmatic functions into account, but it also relates the opposition between direct and inverse verbs and clauses to an opposition between deictic values, thereby achieving two advantageous goals: it meaningfully circumvents one of the usual analytic dilemmas, namely whether a given construction is passive or inverse, and it refines our understanding of the cross-linguistic typology of inversion. This framework is applied to the description of the morphosyntax of eleven Amerindian languages (Algonquian: Plains Cree, Miami-Illinois, Ojibwa; Kutenai; Sahaptian: Sahaptin, Nez Perce; Kiowa-Tanoan: Arizona Tewa, PicurÃs, Southern Tiwa, Kiowa; Mapudungun).
Table of contents
Foreword ix List of abbreviations xi-xii Introduction 1-4 I. Alignment and direction 5-28 II. A theory of direction 29-68 III. Algonquian languages 69-128 IV. Kutenai 129-144 V. Sahaptian languages 145-172 VI. Kiowa-Tanoan languages 173-210 VII. Mapudungun 211-244 VIII. Conclusions 245-264 Appendix 1: Algonquian paradigms 265-272 Appendix 2: Analysis of Kiowa personal prefixes 273-274 Appendix 3: Optimality-theoretic syntax of inverses 275-285 References 287-300 Language index 301 Author index 303-305 Subject index 307-309
Linguistic Field(s):
Morphology
Semantics
Syntax
Typology
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