34.46, Books: The Grammar of Body-Part Expressions: Zariquiey, Valenzuela (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 23:22:48
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: The Grammar of Body-Part Expressions: Zariquiey, Valenzuela (eds.)

 


Title: The Grammar of Body-Part Expressions 
Subtitle: A View from the Americas 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-grammar-of-body-part-expressions-9780198852476?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Editor: Roberto Zariquiey
Editor: Pilar M Valenzuela

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198852476 Pages: 512 Price: U.S. $ 115


Abstract:

This volume explores the grammatical properties of body-part expressions
across a range of languages and language families in the Americas, including
Arawakan, Eastern Tukano, Mataguayan, Panoan, and Takanan. Expressions
denoting parts of the body often exhibit specific grammatical properties that
are intrinsically related to their semantics, and frequently appear in
dedicated constructions, many of which are found exclusively in association
with these expressions.

Following a detailed introduction and discussion of the foundations of
body-part grammar, the chapters in the first part of the book investigate
categorialization, lexicalization, and the semantic processes associated with
body-part expressions. In the second part of the book, contributors
investigate specific grammatical properties of body-part expressions, such as
inalienability, incorporation, possessive constructions, prefixation,
topicality, and word-formation strategies. The volume draws on data from
lesser-known languages that are often under-represented in comparative work,
and makes a significant contribution not only to the linguistics of the
Americas and the typology of body-part expressions, but also to typological
studies more broadly, and to historical, comparative, and anthropological
linguistics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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