Clusivity : typology and case studies of inclusive-exclusive distinction / edited by Elena Filimonova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Filimonova, Elena.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 63.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Clusivity.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Typology (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., 2005.

Summary:

This book presents a collection of papers on clusivity, a newly coined term for the inclusive-exclusive distinction. Clusivity is a widespread feature familiar from descriptive grammars and frequently figuring in typological schemes and diachronic scenarios. However, no comprehensive exploration of it has been available so far. This book is intended to make the first step towards a better understanding of the inclusive-exclusive opposition, by documenting the current linguistic knowledge on the topic.The issues discussed include the categorial and paradigmatic status of the opposition, its geographical distribution, realization in free vs bound pronouns, inclusive imperatives, clusivity in the 2nd person, honorific uses of the distinction, etc. These case studies are complemented by the analysis of the opposition in American Sign Language as opposed to spoken languages. In-depth areal and family surveys of clusivity consider this opposition in Austronesian, Tibeto-Burman, central-western South American, Turkic languages, and in Mosetenan and Shuswap.

Contents:

Clusivity

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Contents

Preface

Introduction

References

I. Case studies on special problems of the inclusive-exclusive distinction

1. Understanding inclusives

1. Introduction

2. Morphological evidence

3. Definition of the pronominal number

4. Definition of the category of person

5. Person-asymmetry paradox and related problems

6. Locutive hierarchies

7. {Addressee &gt

Speaker}

8. Previous studies of locutive hierarchies

9. A note on the tradition

10. Summary

Notes

2. Inclusive-exclusive as person vs. number categories worldwide

2. Three kinds of inclusive-exclusive oppositions

3. Linguistic geography: hypotheses

4. Results

5. Discussion

6. Long-term diachrony

7. Conclusions

Acknowledgments

3. Syncretisms involving clusivity

2. Methodological musings

3. Clusivity and first person

4. Clusivity and second person

5. Clusivity and third person

6. Mixes of inclusive and exclusive

7. Analysis of the syncretisms attested

8. Explaining the anomalies

Acknowledgements

Appendix

4. Only you?

1. Introduction: The problem

2. Theoretical impact of the problem: morphosyntactic features

3. The data

4. Conclusions

5. Inclusive and exclusive in free and bound person forms

2. The inclusive-exclusive distinction

4. The encoding of inclusivity and grammaticalization of person markers

5. Concluding remarks

Abbreviations

6. Inclusive imperative

2. Clusivity within and beyond the imperative

3. The preference for inclusivity

4. Counting the addressees

5. Conclusion.

Abbreviations

7. A typology of honorific uses of clusivity

2. Inclusive as a polite second person (negative politeness)

3. Inclusive as a humble first person (negative politeness)

4. Inclusive as a bonding first person (positive politeness)

5. Inclusive as an impolite first person

6. Exclusive as a polite first person (negative politeness)

7. Analysis and conclusions

8. Exclusive pronouns in American Sign Language

2. Inclusive/exclusive pronouns in spoken languages

3. Inclusive/exclusive pronouns in ASL

4. Inclusive/exclusive in other signed languages

5. Discussion: Modality effects?

6. Conclusion

II. Areal and family portraits of the inclusive-exclusive distinction

9. Inclusive-exclusive in Austronesian

2. Integrative inclusives

3. Impersonal, non-referential inclusives

4. Loss of the inclusive category

5. Exclusives

10. The inclusive-exclusive distinction in Tibeto-Burman languages

0. Overview

1. Qiangic and rGyalrong

2. Lolo-Burmese

3. Bodish

4. Mizo-Kuki-Chin

5. Bodo-Konyak-Jinghpaw

6. Western Himalayan

7. Eastern Himalayan

8. Dulong-Rawang

9. Summary and conclusion

11. Inclusive-exclusive distinctions in the languages of central-western South America

2. The typological perspective

3. The genetic perspective

4. The areal perspective

5. Conclusion

12. Inclusive and exclusive in Turkic languages

1. Introductory notes.

2. The category of inclusive-exclusive in the Turkic imperative paradigm

3. Formal patterns of building augmented inclusive

4. The category of inclusive-exclusive among Turkic personal pronouns

5. Yakut dual collective pronouns

6. Expression of inclusive and exclusive semantics in Turkic languages

7. Conclusion

13. Development of an inclusive-exclusive distinction

2. The definition of first-person plural inclusive

3. The first-person plural of personal pronouns in Mosetenan

4. The introduction of inclusive marking in Mosetenan

14. The inclusive and exclusive in Shuswap

2. The Shuswap facts

3. Possible explanations

4. Mechanism and semantics

5. Conclusions

15. Clusivity cross-linguistically

2. Clusivity in the pronominal paradigm

3. Clusivity in free vs. bound pronominal forms

4. Clusivity in the imperative paradigm

5. Additional functions of inclusive and exclusive forms

6. The rise and fall of the opposition

7. Some special cases of clusivity

8. Clusivity and its (non-)correlates

9. Conclusion

Author index

Language index

Subject index

The series Typological Studies in Language.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612156175

9781282156173

1282156179

9789027293886

9027293880

OCLC:

70733292