29.3545, Books: Spatial Expression in Caac: Cauchard

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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:45:08
From: Pablo Dominguez Andersen [pablo.dominguez at degruyter.com]
Subject: Spatial Expression in Caac: Cauchard

 


Title: Spatial Expression in Caac 
Subtitle: An Oceanic Language Spoken in the North of New Caledonia 
Series Title: Pacific Linguistics [PL]  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/463669?format=G 


Author: Aurélie Cauchard

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501511547 Pages: 310 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

In this study, the author describes the linguistic expression of space in
Caac, an endangered and under-documented Oceanic language spoken in New
Caledonia, from both a descriptive and theoretical perspective. Part I
provides a concise description of Caac grammar, presenting a first formal
portrait of this language to the reader. Part II describes the formal and
semantic features of the linguistic resources available in Caac to encode
spatial relationships. Part III presents the theoretical framework based on
and exploring further the vector analysis developed by Bohnemeyer (2012) and
Bohnemeyer & O'Meara (2012).

In particular, the author proposes an additional sub-category of vectors
(Head-unspecified Vectors) which accounts for the uses of centrifugal forms in
Caac. The resulting framework provides a systematic account of expressions of
orientation as well as location and motion, and to combine the Frames of
Reference typology (Pederson et al. 1998; Levinson, 1996, 2003; Bohnemeyer &
Levinson, not dated) with an analysis of deictic expressions within a single
framework. Special attention, moreover, is given to the use of Caac absolute
and deictic directionals in spatial constructions involving Fictive Motion.
The analysis of Caac data leads us to introduce an additional category of
Fictive Motion beyond those previously recognised in the literature, labelled
here "Anticipated Paths", which in turn shed new light on the nature of
vectors and the relationship between location, motion and orientation.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Caac (msq)

Language Family(ies): Austronesian


Written In: English  (eng)

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