Chop, shred, snap apart’

Verbs of cutting and breaking in Lowland Chontal

Bibliographic Data

ID12197066
AuthorsLoretta O’connor (0000-0001-5636-803X, Universität Hamburg, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume18
Issue2
Publication date2007-01-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCognitive Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0936-5907 • E-ISSN: 1613-3641
PublisherDe Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/cog.2007.010
OpenAlexW2154264319
LanguageEN
References cited8

Typological descriptions of understudied languages reveal intriguing crosslinguistic variation in descriptions of events of object separation and destruction. In Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca, verbs of cutting and breaking lexicalize event perspectives that range from the common to the quite unusual, from the tearing of cloth to the snapping apart on the cross-grain of yarn. This paper describes the semantic and syntactic criteria that characterize three verb classes in this semantic domain, examines patterns of event construal, and takes a look at likely changes in these event descriptions from the perspective of endangered language recovery

Astrophysics · Construal level theory · Event (particle physics · Lexicalization · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Object (grammar · Perspective (graphical · Physics · Register (sociolinguistics · Verb · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Artificial Intelligence

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