Multiple Object Constructions In P Orhepecha
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Multiple Object Constructions in P’orhépecha
In Multiple Object Constructions in P’orhépecha, Capistrán offers a detailed description of double and triple object clauses in P’orhépecha, a Mesoamerican isolate with a case system lacking an accusative-dative distinction. Regarding argument realization, Capistrán discusses alternating constructions and a construction split triggered by the person hierarchy. Valence-affecting operations—applicative, causative/instrumental and part-whole lexical suffixes—are examined, highlighting the person features of applicative suffixes and the complex part-whole morphology. Capistrán’s analysis demonstrates that in P’orhépecha most object coding properties show a neutral pattern, while all behavioral properties present asymmetries that shape a secundative pattern or PO/SO alignment. Capistrán argues that the strong tendency in P’orhépecha to determine PO selection according to a thematic ranking helps explain the (un)grammaticality of tritransitive constructions.
Morfosemántica de la frase nominal purépecha
Author: Violeta Vázquez Rojas Maldonado
language: es
Publisher: El Colegio de Mexico AC
Release Date: 2019-07-24
Este libro reviste interés para tres tipos de lectores: primero, para los estudiosos del purépecha, que podrán hallar aquí algunas generalizaciones nuevas y confirmar otras afirmaciones ya conocidas sobre las frases nominales de esta lengua. En segundo lugar, para los interesados en la semántica descriptiva, especialmente de lenguas mesoamericanas, este texto ofrece una discusión explícita de los métodos de campo empleados para la asociación de formas con significados. En tercer lugar, quienes están interesados en la semántica y tipología de las frases nominales en general encontrarán en la descripción del purépecha la confirmación de algunas tendencias universales reconocidas, así como algunas excepciones a ciertas correlaciones largamente aceptadas.
The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World
This book introduces Proto-Indo-European and explores what the language reveals about the people who spoke it. The Proto-Indo-Europeans lived somewhere in Europe or Asia between 5,500 and 8,000 years ago, and no text of their language survives. J. P. Mallory and Douglas Adams show how over the last two centuries scholars have reconstructed it from its descendant languages, the surviving examples of which comprise the world's largest language family. After a concise account of Proto-Indo-European grammar and a consideration of its discovery, they use the reconstructed language and related evidence from archaeology and natural history to examine the lives, thoughts, passions, culture, society, economy, history, and environment of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. Our distant ancestors had used the wheel, were settled arable farmers, kept sheep and cattle, brewed beer, got married, made weapons, and had 27 verbs for the expression of strife. The subjects to which the authors devote chapters include fauna, flora, family and kinship, clothing and textiles, food and drink, space and time, emotions, mythology, religion, and the continuing quest to discover the Proto-Indo-European homeland. Proto-Indo-European-English and English-Proto-Indo-European vocabularies and full indexes conclude the book. Written in a clear, readable style and illustrated with maps, figures, and tables, this book is on a subject of great and enduring fascination. It will appeal to students of languages, classics, and the ancient world, as well as to general readers interested in the history of language and of early human societies.