Full Description
This volume explores the grammatical properties of body-part expressions across a range of languages and language families in the Americas, including Arawakan, Eastern Tukano, Mataguayan, Panoan, and Takanan. Expressions denoting parts of the body often exhibit specific grammatical properties that are intrinsically related to their semantics, and frequently appear in dedicated constructions, many of which are found exclusively in association with these expressions.
Following a detailed introduction and discussion of the foundations of body-part grammar, the chapters in the first part of the book investigate categorialization, lexicalization, and the semantic processes associated with body-part expressions. In the second part of the book, contributors investigate specific grammatical properties of body-part expressions, such as inalienability, incorporation, possessive constructions, prefixation, topicality, and word-formation strategies. The volume draws on data from lesser-known languages that are often under-represented in comparative work, and makes a significant contribution not only to the linguistics of the Americas and the typology of body-part expressions, but also to typological studies more broadly, and to historical, comparative, and anthropological linguistics.
Contents
List of figures and tables
List of abbreviations
The contributors
1: Roberto Zariquiey and Pilar M. Valenzuela: Introduction
2: Christian Lehmann: Foundations of body-part grammar
Part I. Categorialization, lexicalization, and semantic processes associated with body-part expressions
3: Matt Coler, Bertie Kaal, and Edwin Banegas-Flores: The use of nayra 'eye' in Muqlaq' Aymara: Body, time, and space
4: Jack Bowers: Pathways and patterns of metaphor and metonymy in Mixtepec-Mixtec body-part terms
5: Paola Cúneo and Cristina Messineo: Body parts in Toba: From the biological to the emotional domain
6: Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada: Body-part categorization and grammar in Piaroa
7: Wilson de Lima Silva: A typology of body-part words in Eastern Tukanoan languages
Part II. The grammar of body-part expressions
8: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Tariana body parts in North Arawak perspective: What makes a human live?
9: Swintha Danielsen and Lena Terhart: Body-part terms in Baure and Paunaka: A comparative analysis
10: Sidi Facundes, Marília Freitas, and Bruna Fernanda Lima-Padovani: The grammar of body parts in Apurinã
11: Marianne Mithun: Topicality, affectedness, and body-part grammar
12: Alejandra Vidal and Verónica Nercesian: Body parts and possessive constructions in Mataguayan languages
13: Felipe Hasler, Mariana Poblete, Consuelo Sandoval, Felipe Neira, Daniela Aristegui, and Ricardo Pineda: Body-part terms in Mapudungun: Word-formation strategies and syntactic behavior
14: Pilar M. Valenzuela: Plant and animal body-part terms in Shiwulu grammar: Classification, nominalization, and incorporation
15: David W. Fleck: Vestiges of body-part prefixation in Marubo
16: Roberto Zariquiey, Jaime Montoya, Juana Ticona, Luz Carhuachín, Yessica Reyes, Roxana Quispe-Collantes, José Paz, and Aarón Torres: The grammar of body-part expressions in Iskonawa: Lexicalization, possession, prefixation, and incorporation
17: Roberto Zariquiey and Pilar M. Valenzuela: Body-part nouns, prefixation, incorporation, and compounding in Panoan and Takanan: Evidence for the Pano-Takanan hypothesis?
References
Index
