Locative predications in Chadic languages : implications for semantic analysis / Zygmunt Frajzyngier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frajzyngier, Zygmunt, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chadic languages--Locative constructions.

Chadic languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

This text demonstrates that the grammatical systems of individual languages encode unique semantic structures. Zygmunt Frajzyngier examines these semantic structures with particular reference to how languages convey information about the location of an entity or an event and the movements of an entity in space, drawing on data from eight typologically distinct languages that belong to three branches of the Chadic family.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of abbreviations

1 Introduction

1.1 The aim of the book

1.2 Current approaches to locative expressions

1.3 Current approaches to semantics

1.4 Sample of questions asked and answered in the volume

1.5 The structure of the volume

2 Fundamentals of the current approach

2.1 Basic hypothesis

2.2 The primary object of semantic description

2.3 Typology of semantic structures

2.4 Semantic structure and the lexicon

2.5 Methodology

2.6 Syntactic consequences

2.7 Locative domain

2.8 Conclusions

2.9 The terms used throughout the volume (in alphabetical order)

3 The locative domain in Mina

3.1 Language and people

3.2 An outline of the locative domain

3.3 Locative stative predication

3.4 Functions encoded in the locative complement

3.5 Spatial orientation

3.6 The subdomain of directionality

3.7 Genitive construction in the locative complement

3.8 Summary for Mina

3.9 Implications of the findings in Mina

4 The locative domain in Hausa

4.1 The aim and the scope

4.2 The state of current research

4.3 The major questions

4.4 The coding means for locative expressions in Hausa

4.5 Hypotheses

4.6 Evidence for the existence of locative predication

4.7 The directional locative subdomain

4.8 Marked directionality

4.9 Direction to a specific goal

4.10 Inherently non-locative complements

4.11 Spatial specification

4.12 Summary of the locative predications in Hausa

5 The locative domain in Pero

5.1 Information about the language

5.2 Coding means within the grammatical system of Pero

5.3 Outstanding characteristics of locative expressions in Pero

5.4 Stative locative predications

5.5 The domain of directionality of the event

5.6 Ventive.

5.7 The locative complement

5.8 Absence of the locative complement marker in the clause-initial position

5.9 Spatial and temporal narrowing

5.10 Location in time

5.11 Directional movement versus the manner of movement

5.12 Summary

5.13 Implications

6 The locative domain in Lele

6.1 Information about the language

6.2 Structure of the locative domain

6.3 The forms and functions in the locative complement

6.4 Stative locative

6.5 Coding the locative complement by the preposition daa"0300

6.6 Directional predications

6.7 Spatial orientation with respect to the deictic center

6.8 Conclusions

7 Locative expressions in Hdi

7.1 Background about the language

7.2 An outline of the locative system

7.3 Locative and non-locative verbs

7.4 Locative functions coded on the verb: the system

7.5 Directionality

7.6 The allative function

7.7 The ventive function

7.8 The motion away of the object

7.9 The perfectivizing function of locative extensions

7.10 Source orientation

7.11 Spatial relations in reference to the locative center

7.12 Motion up from the locative center

7.13 Motion into a space

7.14 Motion from inside a space

7.15 Motion down

7.16 The spatial and temporal relations of the locative complement

7.17 The locative complement as goal

7.18 The place of the locative complement

7.19 Conclusions about Hdi

7.20 Implications for linguistic theory

8 The locative domain in Mupun

8.1 Introduction

8.2 The coding means for locative expressions

8.3 The structure of the locative domain in Mupun

8.4 Stative locative predications and the locative complement

8.5 Functions within the locative complement

8.6 Predication of motion

8.7 Summary for Mupun

8.8 Implications for linguistic theory

9 The locative domain in Wandala.

9.1 The importance of the analysis of the Wandala locative domain

9.2 Information about the language

9.3 Coding means for the locative domain

9.4 The fundamental condition for the locative predication

9.5 Functions in the locative domain

9.6 Stative locative predication

9.7 Three types of verbs with respect to the locative function

9.8 Spatial dimensions and directionality of the event

9.9 The goal extension

9.10 Directionality to a specific goal

9.11 The new-location/state extension

9.12 Motion in tri-dimensional space

9.13 The source-oriented extension s

9.14 The `add-on' extension

9.15 Conclusions about the locative functions coded in the predicate

9.16 Forms and functions of the locative complement

9.17 Directionality

9.18 Marking the constituents for the locative complement function

9.19 Spatial relations

9.20 [+Human] nouns in directional locative predication

9.21 The manner and directionality of motion

9.22 Conclusions and implications

10 Locative expressions in Gidar

10.1 Introduction

10.2 The coding means for the locative domain

10.3 The structure of the locative domain in Gidar

10.4 Locative complements

10.5 Spatial specification

10.6 Stative locative predicates

10.7 Properties of verbs with respect to directionality

10.8 Properties of motion verbs in Gidar

10.9 Summary concerning Gidar

10.10 Implications for linguistic theory

11 Toward a typology of locative expression in Chadic

11.1 The aim of typology

11.2 A typology of the functions of Chadic locative expressions

11.3 A typology of formal means coding distinct functions

11.4 The functions of locative prepositions and postpositions

11.5 Unique properties of the locative domain

11.6 Languages that do not code the locative domain in their semantic structure.

11.7 Open questions regarding the typology of locative predications in Chadic

12 Implications for linguistic theory

12.1 Implications for semantic theory

12.2 The non-autonomous status of lexicon

12.3 Formation of utterances

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9780191998171

0191998176

9780198896227

0198896220

OCLC:

1458309461