The Categorial Status of Body Part Prepositions in Valley Zapotec ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page i
Signature Page ii
Table of Contents iii
Table of Tables vi
Table of Figures vii
List of Abbreviations viii
Acknowledgements ix
Abstract of the Thesis x
1. Introduction 1
1.1 The Languages 1
1.2 The Data Sources 2
1.2.1 Orthography 4
1.3 The Phenomenon 6
2. The Syntax of Body Part Prepositions 10
2.1 Possessed Body Parts 10
2.2 Body Part Prepositions 11
2.2.1 Other Prepositions 12
2.3 Evidence from Intransitive Verbs 14
2.4 Evidence from Categorial Selection 16
2.5 Evidence from Coordination 18
2.6 Semantically Infelicitous Body Part Constructions 18
2.6.1 Semantically Infelicitous Possessed Body Parts 18
2.6.2 Body Part Prepositions as a Synchronically Closed Class 20
2.6.3 Mismatch Between Location of Figure and Body Part of Ground 20
2.6.4 Irrelevance of Orientation of Ground 22
2.7 Explanation for Ambiguous Sentences 22
2.8 Directionals 25
2.9 Semantic Change and Syntactic Reanalysis 27
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