Deixis and Alignment

Inverse systems in indigenous languages of the Americas

Bibliographic Data

ID2709508
AuthorsFederico Zúñiga (0000-0002-9015-6601, Centro de Estudios Públicos, Santiago Chile, corresponding author), Fernando Zúñiga
Year2006
Pages309
Publication date2006-11-29
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueDeixis and Alignment (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/tsl.70
OpenAlexW4256045258
Open LibraryOL12801378M
ISBN9789027229823
LanguageEN
Citations received30

This book proposes a notion of inverse that differs from two widespread positions found in descriptive and typological studies (one of them restrictive and structure-oriented, the other broad and function-centered). This third stance put forward here takes both grammar and pragmatic functions into account, but it also relates the opposition between direct and inverse verbs and clauses to an opposition between deictic values, thereby achieving two advantageous goals: it meaningfully circumvents one of the usual analytic dilemmas, namely whether a given construction is passive or inverse, and it refines our understanding of the cross-linguistic typology of inversion. This framework is applied to the description of the morphosyntax of eleven Amerindian languages (Algonquian: Plains Cree, Miami-Illinois, Ojibwa; Kutenai; Sahaptian: Sahaptin, Nez Perce; Kiowa-Tanoan: Arizona Tewa, PicurÃs, Southern Tiwa, Kiowa; Mapudungun

Deixis · Geography · Grammar · Inverse · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Typology · Anthropology · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Comparative and general Grammar · Direction in language · Grammar, Comparative and general · Indians · Indians of North America · Language · Language & Linguistics · Language Arts & Disciplines · Languages · North & Central American indigenous languages · Geology

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