Santazilia | Animacy and Inflectional Morphology Across Languages | Buch | 978-90-04-51305-1 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 436 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 897 g

Reihe: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory

Santazilia

Animacy and Inflectional Morphology Across Languages


Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51305-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 436 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 897 g

Reihe: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory

ISBN: 978-90-04-51305-1
Verlag: Brill


Animacy influences the grammar of languages in different ways, although it often goes unnoticed. Did you know that in English there is a strong tendency towards using the Saxon genitive ’s with humans instead of the preposition of? Have you ever hear that some Chinantecan languages encode the animate/inanimate distinction in almost every word, and that in Hatam only human nouns distinguish plural number? This book offers for the first time a comprehensive cross-linguistic study of its effects on morphological systems. How do real data fit the theorethical definition of animacy? Do we observe different types of animacy? Which techniques are employed to encode it? Which categories and features are affected, and how? Data from more than 300 languages provide answers to these (and other) questions.

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Acknowledgements

List of Tables and Figures

Abbreviations

1 Introduction

1 Goals

2 The Organization of This Book

3 Methodological Issues

2 Theoretical Contribution

1 A Brief Explanation of Humanity’s Interest in Animacy

2 Animacy in Linguistics

3 Remarks on the Behavior of Grammatical Animacy

4 The Definition of “Animacy in Inflectional Morphology”

3 Techniques

1 Affixation

2 Alternation

3 Overt Free Elements

4 Reduplication

5 Zero-Marking

6 Morpheme Order

7 Complex Techniques

8 Morphophonemic Techniques

9 Mixed Techniques

10 Summary and Conclusions to Chapter 3

4 Word/Morpheme Classes

1 (Bound) Pronouns

2 Determiners

3 Nouns and Noun Phrases

4 Adjectives

5 Number Markers, Numerals, and Quantifiers

6 Verbs

7 Tense Markers

8 Inversion Markers

9 Adverbs

10 Gender/Noun Class Markers and Classifiers

11 Case Markers and Adpositions

12 Possessive Affixes/Genitives

13 Conjunctions

14 Nominalizers

15 Evidentials

16 Catalyzers

17 Identity Affixes

18 Whatchamacallit Words

19 Summary and Conclusions to Chapter 4

5 Feature: Gender/Noun Class

1 Animacy as a Semantic Feature for Gender Assignment

2 Animacy as a Condition

3 Animacy as a Value-Dependent Semantic Feature

4 Summary and Conclusions to Chapter 5

6 Feature: Number

1 Overt Number Marking in the Controller

2 Overt Number Agreement in the Target

3 Optionality

4 Mismatches between the Controller and the Target

5 Values Distinguished

6 Inverse Number Marking

7 Animacy as a Condition for Agreement Controllers

8 Same Form, Different Number

9 (Apparent) Exceptions to the Relation between Number and High Animacy

10 Summary and Conclusions to Chapter 6

7 Feature: Person

1 Animacy as a Condition for Overt Agreement

2 Animacy as a Condition for Person Values: Semantic vs. Default Marking

3 Animacy as a Condition for Agreement Controllers

4 Obviation

5 Summary and Conclusions to Chapter 7

8 Feature: Case

1 Syntactic/Functional Approach

2 Morphological Approach

3 Summary and Conclusions to Chapter 8

9 Conclusions and Open Issues

1 Three Types of Animacy

2 What Is Animacy?

3 Somewhat Universal

4 Splits and Hierarchy

5 The Purpose of Grammatical Animacy

6 Epilogue

Appendix 1: Pronominal System in Zapotecan Languages

Appendix 2: Genetic Classification of Languages

Appendix 3: Data Sources

References

Language Index


Ekaitz Santazilia has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of the Basque Country. He serves as Assistant Professor at the Public University of Navarre. His main research interests are typology, morphology and the history of Basque.



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