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Table 11. BP Terms as Prepositions and Nouns in Colonial VZ Documents Body Part Term Meaning Tokens as Preposition Tokens as Noun lao 'to' 110 1 'face' lani 'in' 14 0 lachinaa 'in the hands of' 14 0 cwe 'beside' 4 0 xana 'under' 1 0 rua 'edge' 0 34 que head 0 4 ni 'foot' 0 1 It is interesting to note that lao 8 occurs three times more often than any other body part term in these texts. As I will discuss below, it also seems to have the broadest range of meaning. 3.1 Examples of Body Part Nouns There are many examples of the body part terms presented in Table 11 used as BP nouns in the Colonial documents. Most of these examples are metaphorical uses of the BP nouns, which is not surprising, given the limited content of the documents, which are mostly wills. The definitions of the words in Cordova (1578a) confirm that these words were also used as body parts in the Colonial period. 3.1.1 Lao 'face' Cordova defines láo as "cara o rostro de animal” 'face [of a person] or face of an animal' (Cordova 1578a, 72); however, all of the nominal uses we see in the documents seem to be metaphorical, such as (24) below where lao refers to the face of a house. 8 Lao also occurs in the documents spelled as lo and loo. For the purposes of this paper, I will treat these as the same word; however, it would be interesting to pursue the possibility of a lexical difference between these in the future. 35
(24) Co721, page 2, lines 13-15 huanee tiopa yocho tobij n-ohuij lao=nij nesaa loolaha chela and two house one NEU-look face=3 toward Oaxaca and see-toobij n-ohuij lao=nij nesena late r-asi goobijcha DEF-one NEU-look face=3 toward place HAB-go.into sun 'and two houses: one, its face looks toward Oaxaca and the other one, its face looks toward the place where the sun goes in (west)' 3.1.2 Rua 'edge' Rua 'mouth' is defined by Cordova as "boca generalmente” 'mouth, in general', (Cordova 1578a, 56v), but all of the nominal uses of rua 'mouth' in the documents are metaphorical extensions, as in (25) and (26) where rua is used to refer to the horizon— the edge of the land. (25) Co721, page 2, lines 22-23 cheela n-aachagaa bysaa Bisente de mendossa and NEU-mee s border.marker Vincente de Mendosa nesena ruaa r-ijazij goobychaa toward edge HAB-go.into sun 'and [the lot of land] meets the border marker of Vincente de Mendosa toward the edge the sun goes into (the west)' (26) Co721, page 3, lines 4-8 naa-chaga bijsaa layoo solar xtenij guetao sebastian NEU-meet border.marker land solar of deceased Sebastian bisente nesenaa rua r-ijlanee gobycha cheela… Vicente toward edge HAB-emerge sun and neesee rua r-iasij govijcha na-chaga vijsaa pedro gomes toward edge HAB-go.into sun NEU-meets border.marker Pedro Gomez '[The lot of land] meets the border marker of the solar of the late Sebastian Vicente on the east and toward the west [it] meets the border marker of Pedro Gomez.' 36
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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 42 and 43: . Rbèez=a' làa'iny Sann Lu'uc. (S
Page 44 and 45: allow for some types of morpho-synt
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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