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allow for some types of morpho-syntactic analysis. In addition to the documents collected by Terraciano and Sousa, there is a dictionary and a grammar written by Fr. Juan de Cordova (1578a, 1578b). These tools have been invaluable in analyzing the Colonial documents, despite many problematic features of both the dictionary and the grammar. Although the research is ongoing, we have to date analyzed 15 documents. These documents are presented in Table 10 along with the abbreviations for the documents, which will be used in the following section. These fifteen documents come from seven different pueblos and cover 188 years from 1565 to 1753. We do not know how many languages these documents represented, even in Colonial times. Table 10. Colonial Valley Zapotec Documents Document Abbreviation 1565 Zimatlán Zi565 1610 San Sebastian Tectipaque Te610 1616 San Sebastian Tectipaque Te616 1618 San Sebastian Tectipaque Te618 1626 San Sebastian Tectipaque Te626 1643 Guaxolotitlan (Huizo) Hu643 1675 Tlacochahuaya – a Tl675a 1675 Tlacochahuaya – b Tl675b 1686 Ocotlán Oc686 1694 Tlacochahuaya Tl694 1715 Ocotlán Oc715 1719 Zaachila Za719 1721 Coyotepec Co721 1740 Ocotlán Oc740 1753 Ocotlán Oc753 33
These documents have proved to be a rich source of data for the use of body part terms both as nouns and as prepositions. I collected all the examples of body part terms from our analyzed texts and present and analyze them here. Given the nature of the material, I can use the documents only to provide positive evidence. That is to say, just because we see no example of the use of a particular word in these fifteen documents does not mean the word was not being used at that time. Likewise, the absence of the use of a body part term used in a locational construction does not mean that it was not used that way at that time. And of course, we have no speakers who could judge potential sentences as ungrammatical. Nevertheless, the type of information that the positive data provides is interesting, and it adds another dimension to the discussion of the categorial status of the body part terms and possible paths of semantic and syntactic change. Of the twelve different body part terms presented in Table 3, we see examples of seven of these in the Colonial documents. Additionally, we see a complex body part term that is used in sentences dealing with possession, lachinaa 'in the hand of.' These eight words are presented below in Table 11, which shows the total number of uses of each of these terms as prepositions and as nouns. 34
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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
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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
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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 42 and 43: . Rbèez=a' làa'iny Sann Lu'uc. (S
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
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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
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