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. Rbèez=a' làa'iny Sann Lu'uc. (SLQZ) reside.in=1s stomach Saint Luke 'I live in Saint Luke's stomach.' *'I live in San Lucas.' Given that verbs of this type exist in modern VZ languages, it seems plausible that a sentence like Bèe'cw zòob ni'ih me'es might originally have had the structure presented in (22). (I use > to enclose hypothetical sentences. These are forms that I am conjecturing may have existed at some previous stage of the language, but are not attested.) (22) Stage 1. a. dog NEU.sit.AT table 'The dog is sitting by the table.' b.
. Bèe'ecw zòob ni'ih me'es. (TMZ) dog NEU.sit under table. 'The dog is sitting under the table.' In Section 2 I have presented a variety of syntactic and semantic tests, showing repeatedly that BP and non-BP PPs pattern together in the syntax, while BP PPs do not function like NPs either syntactically or semantically. BP terms in locative expressions behave semantically as prepositions, referring to the relationship between the figure and the ground, and need not refer to a location on the ground. Furthermore, the path of syntactic and semantic change that would be necessary to develop this system can be accounted for using already existing and well established types of change such as metaphor and metonymic extension. Whatever the exact path of historical development, these changes must have happened very early, since the use of BP prepositions seems to be reconstructable for Proto-Zapotecan. 3.0 Valley Zapotec Colonial Documents Pamela Munro, Kevin Terraciano (History, UCLA), Lisa Sousa (History, Occidental College) and graduate students at UCLA including John Foreman, Christina Esposita, Olivia Martínez, and me, among others, have been involved in a long term project of translating and analyzing Zapotec language texts from the Spanish Colonial period in Mexico, ranging in date from 1565 to 1753. These documents were written in Zapotec by native speakers using Roman letters to approximate the complicated phonological system. The inaccuracy of this system and doubts about the meaning of these spellings make many types of phonological analysis nearly impossible, but does 32
Page 1: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angele
Page 4 and 5: TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page i Sign
Page 6 and 7: 4.4.1 Dissociation between Acquisit
Page 8 and 9: TABLE OF FIGURES Figure 1. Map of M
Page 10 and 11: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I sincerely thank
Page 12 and 13: The Categorial Status of Body Part
Page 14 and 15: SLQZ has been described in a dictio
Page 16 and 17: VZ languages have six vowels, as pr
Page 18 and 19: . Nàa're' zòob=a' làa'iny co'ch.
Page 20 and 21: Other linguists have commented on t
Page 22 and 23: Table 4. Possessed Body Parts in Va
Page 24 and 25: tables are not intended to be an ex
Page 26 and 27: cannot, even though it seems as tho
Page 28 and 29: other possessed nouns should also o
Page 30 and 31: constructions are nouns, one would
Page 32 and 33: Figure 3. Snake on Upside-down Car
Page 34 and 35: Figure 5. Snake under Car Figure 6.
Page 36 and 37: If one were to analyze BP prepositi
Page 38 and 39: Constructions using directional ver
Page 40 and 41: 2.9.3 Projecting Space This extensi
Page 44 and 45: allow for some types of morpho-synt
Page 46 and 47: Table 11. BP Terms as Prepositions
Page 48 and 49: 3.1.3 Queque 'head' I found no inst
Page 50 and 51: 3.2 Examples of Body Part Prepositi
Page 52 and 53: (39) Co721, page 5, lines 12-15 Laa
Page 54 and 55: 3.2.3 Rua 'at the edge of' The only
Page 56 and 57: 4.1 Participants Four children were
Page 58 and 59: The children were tested in their h
Page 60 and 61: epresenting the picture on the left
Page 62 and 63: Table 14. Body Part Test Left Pictu
Page 64 and 65: while still natural. Upon consultat
Page 66 and 67: Table 15. Body Part Preposition Tes
Page 68 and 69: Table 16. Results for Lorena 6;4 Bo
Page 70 and 71: Table 18. Results for Vanesa 1;6 Bo
Page 72 and 73: Table 20. SLQZ Acquisition of Body
Page 74 and 75: In an earlier paper, Jensen de Lóp
Page 76 and 77: 4.5 Conclusions There is no evidenc
Page 78 and 79: References Córdova, Fr. Juan de. 1
Page 80 and 81: Lillehaugen, Brook Danielle. to app

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