New U of California Press title: Hintz - Crossing Aspectual Frontiers

[Dan Hintz]

Dear Funknetters,

Here is some information on my recently published book on aspect in Quechua. 

All best,
Dan

Daniel J. Hintz

dan_hintz at sil.org 
http://llaqwash.com/dan

Linguistics Consultant
SIL International

Reference:

Hintz, Daniel J. 2011. Crossing aspectual frontiers: Emergence, evolution, and interwoven semantic domains in South Conchucos Quechua discourse. University of California Publications in Linguistics, Vol. 146. Berkeley: University of California Press.
 
Description:

This book presents a comprehensive account of the grammatical expression of aspect and related semantic domains in South Conchucos Quechua, a language of central Peru. Based on a corpus of naturally-occurring speech, the approach applied here integrates the description of the synchronic system in South Conchucos with an investigation of cognitive and communicative forces that have shaped aspect and related categories across the language family. Additionally, the aspect system is positioned within a typological framework, supporting certain cross-linguistic tendencies and highlighting properties unique to Quechua.

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http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520098855 

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    PART I - INTRODUCTION
1. Preliminaries
    PART II - THE GRAMMATICAL EXPRESSION OF ASPECT IN SOUTH CONCHUCOS QUECHUA
2. Perfectives
3. Imperfectives
4. The South Conchucos Quechua aspect system
    PART III - ASPECT AND RELATED SEMANTIC DOMAINS
5. Aspect and tense
6. Aspect and modality
7. Aspect and manner
8. Aspect and middle voice
    PART IV - THE EVOLUTION OF ASPECT IN QUECHUA
9. The evolution of perfectives
10. The evolution of imperfectives
11. Aspectualizing constructions
    PART V - CONCLUSION
12. The emergence of grammatical systems
    APPENDICES 
A. Maps of aspect markers across the Quechua language family
B. South Conchucos Quechua aspect and the derivation-inflection continuum
C. Suffixes and enclitics in the South Conchucos Quechua verb
D. Quechua suffixes with the shape C.CV
E. Perfective -ski as a former directional suffix
F. Transcriptions of two conversation segments in South Conchucos Quechua
    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    INDEXES 
Authors
Languages and language families
Quechuan languages
Subjects