Deixis and Alignment
Inverse systems in indigenous languages of the Americas
1st Edition
Published on 29. November 2006
XII, 309 pages
978-90-272-9304-6 (ISBN)
Description
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, PicurÃs, Southern Tiwa, Kiowa; Mapudungun).
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Content
- 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
