The grammar of body-part expressions : a view from the Americas /

"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...

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Other Authors: Zariquiey, Roberto (Editor), Valenzuela, Pilar (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2022]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Roberto Zariquiey and Pilar M. Valenzuela
  • Foundations of body-part grammar / Christian Lehmann
  • The use of nayra 'eye' in Muylaq' Aymara: body, time, and space / Matt Coler and others
  • Pathways and patterns of metaphor and metonymy in Mixtepec-Mixtec body-part terms / Jack Bowers
  • Body parts in Toba: from the biological to the emotional domain / Paola Cúneo and Cristina Messineo
  • Body-part categorization and grammar in Piaroa / Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada
  • A typology of body-part words in Eastern Tukanoan languages / W. D. L. Silva
  • Tariana body parts in North Arawak perspective: what makes a human live? / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
  • Body-part terms in Baure and Paunaka: a comparative analysis / Swintha Danielsen and Lena Terhart
  • The grammar of body parts in Apurinã / Sidi Facundes and others
  • Topicality, affectedness, and body-part grammar / Marianne Mithun
  • Body parts and possessive constructions in Mataguayan languages / Verónica Nercesian and Alejandra Vidal
  • Body-part terms in Mapudungun: word-formation strategies and syntactic behavior / Felipe Hasler and others
  • Plant and animal body-part terms in Shiwulu grammar: classification, nominalization, and incorporation / Pilar M. Valenzuela
  • Vestiges of body-part prefixation in Marubo / David W. Fleck
  • The grammar of body-part expressions in Iskonawa: lexicalization, possession, prefixation, and incorporation / Roberto Zariquiey and others
  • Body-part nouns, prefixation, incorporation, and compounding in Panoan and Takanan: evidence for the Pano-Takanan hypothesis? / Roberto Zariquiey and Pilar M. Valenzuela.