Luca Ciucci
Biographic Data
| ID | 303286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luca Ciucci |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luca |
| FAMILY NAME | Ciucci |
| SIGNATURE | CIUCCI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0206-3913 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Celebrating Indigenous Voice: Legends and Narratives in Languages of the Tropics and Beyond
How to restructure a grammatical category: The innovative person system of Chamacoco (Zamucoan, northern Paraguay)
Chamacoco is a Zamucoan language of northern Paraguay that has considerably restructured its person reference system. Starting from the existing reconstruction of Proto-Zamucoan, I will analyze the evolution of person marking in free pronouns, verbs and possessable nouns. The verb lost the realis/irrealis distinction in speech act participants, while the third person underwent some allomorphic changes and introduced a distinction between third si…
From Fieldwork to Reconstruction: Historical Issues in Hotspots of Linguistic Diversity
International audience
How Historical Data Complement Fieldwork: New Diachronic Perspectives on Zamucoan Verb Inflection
This article shows how the unearthing of new historical data on a language can contribute to diachronic studies and language reconstruction. †Old Zamuco is an extinct Zamucoan language, for which the only extant dictionary was recently rediscovered. This dictionary is the main source on the language and is very rich in morphological information. In particular, it contains many new verb paradigms with previously undescribed or only conjectured cha…
Zamucoan ethnonymy in the 18th century and the etymology of Ayoreo
This study presents new data on Zamucoan ethnonymy and solves an etymological problem concerning the term Ayoreo. The earliest documented Zamucoan language is Old Zamuco, spoken in the 18th century in the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos and close to present-day Ayoreo. The morphology and meaning of ethnonyms used by Zamucoan peoples in the 18th century are analyzed. Previously undocumented ethnic denominations emerge, including the endonym of the Ol…
Matter borrowing, pattern borrowing and typological rarities in the Gran Chaco of South America
Two types of morphologically expressed non-verbal predication
The morphological expression of non-verbal predication is a geographically widespread, although not very frequent, typological feature. This paper highlights the existence of two radically contrasting types of non-verbal predicative inflection. Construction A has already been described in the literature. It consists of attaching person-sensitive inflection markers to non-verbal predicates, possibly extending this treatment to adverbs and adverbia…
A culture of secrecy: The hidden narratives of the Ayoreo
This paper aims at discussing some aspects of the secrecy characterizing sacred texts by the Ayoreo, a Zamucoan population of the Boreal Chaco in South America, from a linguistic perspective. The magic power exerted by words in Ayoreo traditional culture is the reason why holy texts are kept secret, and this makes it difficult to provide a complete linguistic documentation of Ayoreo ‘hidden’ narratives and ritual formulas. After having outlined e…
Possessive inflection in Proto-Zamucoan: A reconstruction
This paper presents a comparative analysis of possessive inflection in the three known Zamucoan languages: Ayoreo and Chamacoco – still spoken in the Chaco area between Bolivia and Paraguay – plus †Old Zamuco, described by the Jesuit father Ignace Chomé in the first half of the 18th century. The comparison allows us to build a plausible reconstruction of Proto-Zamucoan possessive inflection. Old Zamuco appears to be the most conservative language…
Parataxis, hypotaxis and para-hypotaxis in the Zamucoan languages
The term "para-hypotaxis" is commonly used by Romance linguists to refer to sentences containing a proleptic dependent clause, with the main clause introduced by a coordinator. It is thus an intermediate structure between parataxis and hypotaxis; it should not be confused, however, with seemingly analogous phenomena, such as co-subordination. Traditionally considered as an idiosyncratic feature of the Old Romance languages (as well as Biblical He…
Parataxis, hypotaxis and para-hypotaxis in the Zamucoan languages
The term "para-hypotaxis" is commonly used by Romance linguists to refer to sentences containing a proleptic dependent clause, with the main clause introduced by a coordinator. It is thus an intermediate structure between parataxis and hypotaxis; it should not be confused, however, with seemingly analogous phenomena, such as co-subordination. Traditionally considered as an idiosyncratic feature of the Old Romance languages (as well as Biblical He…
Possessive inflection in Proto-Zamucoan: A reconstruction
This paper presents a comparative analysis of possessive inflection in the three known Zamucoan languages: Ayoreo and Chamacoco – still spoken in the Chaco area between Bolivia and Paraguay – plus †Old Zamuco, described by the Jesuit father Ignace Chomé in the first half of the 18th century. The comparison allows us to build a plausible reconstruction of Proto-Zamucoan possessive inflection. Old Zamuco appears to be the most conservative language…
Two types of morphologically expressed non-verbal predication
The morphological expression of non-verbal predication is a geographically widespread, although not very frequent, typological feature. This paper highlights the existence of two radically contrasting types of non-verbal predicative inflection. Construction A has already been described in the literature. It consists of attaching person-sensitive inflection markers to non-verbal predicates, possibly extending this treatment to adverbs and adverbia…
A culture of secrecy: The hidden narratives of the Ayoreo
This paper aims at discussing some aspects of the secrecy characterizing sacred texts by the Ayoreo, a Zamucoan population of the Boreal Chaco in South America, from a linguistic perspective. The magic power exerted by words in Ayoreo traditional culture is the reason why holy texts are kept secret, and this makes it difficult to provide a complete linguistic documentation of Ayoreo ‘hidden’ narratives and ritual formulas. After having outlined e…
Matter borrowing, pattern borrowing and typological rarities in the Gran Chaco of South America
How to restructure a grammatical category: The innovative person system of Chamacoco (Zamucoan, northern Paraguay)
Chamacoco is a Zamucoan language of northern Paraguay that has considerably restructured its person reference system. Starting from the existing reconstruction of Proto-Zamucoan, I will analyze the evolution of person marking in free pronouns, verbs and possessable nouns. The verb lost the realis/irrealis distinction in speech act participants, while the third person underwent some allomorphic changes and introduced a distinction between third si…
From Fieldwork to Reconstruction: Historical Issues in Hotspots of Linguistic Diversity
International audience
How Historical Data Complement Fieldwork: New Diachronic Perspectives on Zamucoan Verb Inflection
This article shows how the unearthing of new historical data on a language can contribute to diachronic studies and language reconstruction. †Old Zamuco is an extinct Zamucoan language, for which the only extant dictionary was recently rediscovered. This dictionary is the main source on the language and is very rich in morphological information. In particular, it contains many new verb paradigms with previously undescribed or only conjectured cha…
Zamucoan ethnonymy in the 18th century and the etymology of Ayoreo
This study presents new data on Zamucoan ethnonymy and solves an etymological problem concerning the term Ayoreo. The earliest documented Zamucoan language is Old Zamuco, spoken in the 18th century in the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos and close to present-day Ayoreo. The morphology and meaning of ethnonyms used by Zamucoan peoples in the 18th century are analyzed. Previously undocumented ethnic denominations emerge, including the endonym of the Ol…
Celebrating Indigenous Voice: Legends and Narratives in Languages of the Tropics and Beyond
History (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (3 works) · Inflection (3 works) · Plural (3 works)