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Item type:Publication, The grammar of body-part expressions: A view from the Americas(Oxford University Press, 2022-08-18)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. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Introduction(Oxford University Press, 2022-08-18)This introduction outlines the chapters included in the present volume and places their contributions in the more general discussion on the grammar of body-part expressions. It underlines the substantial significance in this context of Amerindian languages, indicating that the extensive coverage and new insights detailed here willcontributing to the understanding of the nature of body-part expressions in the Americas. It also offers a detailed list of the languages discussed in the following chapters along with two maps illustrating their approximate locations. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Body-part nouns, prefixation, incorporation, and compounding in Panoan and Takanan: Evidence for the Pano-Takanan hypothesis?(Oxford University Press, 2022-08-18)A fundamental open question in South American classificatory linguistics is whether the abundant lexical and grammatical affinities exhibited by the Pano and Takana languages from Western Amazonia are due to genetic inheritance or prolonged language contact. Although the proposal of a Pano-Takana stock has traditionally been accepted in the literature, it has since been disputed. In this chapter we show that several body-part nouns in proto-Pano and proto-Takana are not only very similar but exhibit regular sound correspondences. Furthermore, we claim that the similarities between body-part expressions in Pano and in Takana go beyond the mere lexicon. Although it is true that only Pano languages exhibit body-part prefixation, Takana languages feature body-part noun incorporation and compounding. We argue that Pano body-part prefixation can in fact be interpreted as a historical development from source constructions like body-part noun incorporation and compounding, as they are synchronically found in Takana. The lexical and gramatical correspondences found among body-part constructions in Pano and Takana languages provide new evidence in favor of the Pano-Takana hypothesis. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Object-oriented switch-reference in Pano(Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)::will be referenced::ROR-ID, 2025-01-01)The label switch-reference has been used to refer to a widely-attested grammatical category whose principal function is to indicate co-reference relations among arguments of different clauses in discourse. Switch-reference is attested in languages of most regions of the world and is widespread in Amazonia, where Pano languages seem to exhibit some of the most complex switch-reference systems documented so far. This chapter explores switch-reference in Pano languages, focusing on what is called here ‘object-oriented switch-reference’ (i.e. a diverse range of switch-reference markers that encode co-reference relations based on the object argument of either any or both the marked and the controlling clause). After introducing the most important facts about switch-reference in Pano, the chapter discusses and illustrates the synchronic morphosyntactic and semantic properties of object-oriented switch-reference. It also provides some diachronic hypothesis about their origin and evolution, proving that this typologically uncommon type of switch-reference evolved from nominalizations.10