The Grammar of Body-Part Expressions
A View from the Americas
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 June 2022
- ISBN 9780198852476
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages526 pages
- Size 240x163x34 mm
- Weight 938 g
- Language English 231
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Short description:
This volume explores the grammatical properties of body-part expressions in the languages of the Americas. The chapters investigate a range of phenomena from the use of metaphor and metonymy to incorporation and possessive constructions, many of them drawing on data from lesser-known and often under-represented languages.
MoreLong 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.
Table of Contents:
List of figures and tables
List of abbreviations
The contributors
Introduction
Foundations of body-part grammar
Part I. Categorialization, lexicalization, and semantic processes associated with body-part expressions
The use of nayra 'eye' in Muqlaq' Aymara: Body, time, and space
Pathways and patterns of metaphor and metonymy in Mixtepec-Mixtec body-part terms
Body parts in Toba: From the biological to the emotional domain
Body-part categorization and grammar in Piaroa
A typology of body-part words in Eastern Tukanoan languages
Part II. The grammar of body-part expressions
Tariana body parts in North Arawak perspective: What makes a human live?
Body-part terms in Baure and Paunaka: A comparative analysis
The grammar of body parts in Apurinã
Topicality, affectedness, and body-part grammar
Body parts and possessive constructions in Mataguayan languages
Body-part terms in Mapudungun: Word-formation strategies and syntactic behavior
Plant and animal body-part terms in Shiwulu grammar: Classification, nominalization, and incorporation
Vestiges of body-part prefixation in Marubo
The grammar of body-part expressions in Iskonawa: Lexicalization, possession, prefixation, and incorporation
Body-part nouns, prefixation, incorporation, and compounding in Panoan and Takanan: Evidence for the Pano-Takanan hypothesis?
References
Index
