35.1456, Books: The Algonquian Inverse: Oxford (2024)

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Date: 25-Apr-2024
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: The Algonquian Inverse: Oxford (2024)


Title: The Algonquian Inverse
Series Title: Oxford Studies of Endangered Languages
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-algonquian-inver
se-9780192871800?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campa
ign=linguistics

Author: Will Oxford
Hardback: ISBN: 9780192871800 Pages: 352 Price: U.S. $ 115.00
Abstract:

This book serves as a definitive reference for the inverse morphology
of the Algonquian languages, which has attracted much attention in
typological and theoretical linguistics. Will Oxford describes the
patterning of inverse morphology across the Algonquian family and
presents a framework for understanding the structure and function of
the Algonquian inverse that is empirically driven and typologically
grounded. He presents data from all documented Algonquian languages
and considers not only the morphology of the inverse construction but
also its syntax and pragmatics, giving equal weight to diachronic,
typological, functional, and formal perspectives. From the integration
of these perspectives, a simple and coherent understanding of the
nature of the inverse emerges. The key proposal is that the inverse is
"deep" in some contexts and "shallow" in others. In interactions
between two third persons, the inverse is a "deep" patient voice
construction that inverts the canonical morphology, syntax, and
pragmatics of a transitive clause. In interactions between a third
person and a first or second person, the inverse is a "shallow"
hierarchical agreement pattern implemented through a spurious use of
patient voice morphology, inverting the canonical morphology of a
transitive clause but having no effect on syntax or pragmatics. This
split analysis, which reflects the likely diachronic development of
the Algonquian inverse, is argued to have various benefits, including
the resolution of a longstanding controversy over the syntactic status
of the inverse.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Language Family(ies): Algonquian

Written In: English (eng)



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