Deixis and alignment : inverse systems in indigenous languages of the Americas / Fernando Zuniga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zúñiga, Fernando.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 70.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Languages--Deixis.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Languages--Grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : Benjamins, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book proposes a 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). This 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, Picurís, Southern Tiwa, Kiowa; Mapudungun).

Contents:

Deixis and Alignment

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of Contents

Foreword

List of abbreviations

Introduction

I. Alignment and direction

1. Alignment and alignment types

2. On polynomy and types

3. Hierarchical alignment

4. Summary

II. A theory of direction

1. Grammatical categories involved

2. Parameters of direction

3. Summary

III. Algonquian languages

1. Plains Cree

2. Miami-Illinois

3. Central Ojibwa

4. Toward Algonquian grammatical relations

5. Summary of Algonquian languages

IV. Kutenai

1. Kutenai direction

2. Summary

V. Sahaptian languages

1. Sahaptin

2. Nez Perce

3. Summary of Sahaptian languages

VI. Kiowa-Tanoan languages

1. Klaiman's (1991, 1992) view of Tanoan

2. A second opinion on Tanoan

3. Tanoan direction systems

4. Watkins's (1984) view of Kiowa

5. A second opinion on Kiowa

6. Summary of Kiowa-Tanoan languages

VII. Mapudungun

1. Mapudungun verb morphology and clause structure

2. Analyses of Mapudungun

3. Direction in Mapudungun

VIII. Conclusions

1. Summary of the languages discussed

2. Lessons and prospects

Appendix 1: Algonquian paradigms

Appendix 2: Analysis of Kiowa personal prefixes

Appendix 3: Optimality-theoretic syntax of inverses

References

Language index

Author index

Subject index

The series Typological Studies in Language.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographic references (p. [287]-300) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612155161

9781282155169

1282155164

9789027293046

902729304X

OCLC:

191936313