The Categorial Status of Body Part Prepositions in Valley Zapotec ...
The Categorial Status of Body Part Prepositions in Valley Zapotec ... 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 iii
2.9.1 Basic Meaning 27 2.9.2 Metaphorical Extension 28 2.9.3 Projecting Space 29 2.9.4 Syntactic Reanalysis 30 3. Valley Zapotec Colonial Documents 32 3.1 Examples of Body Part Nouns 35 3.1.1 Lao 'face' 35 3.1.2 Rua 'edge' 36 3.1.3 Queque 'head' 37 3.1.4 Ni 'foot' 37 3.1.5 Cue 'side' 38 3.2 Examples of Body Part Prepositions 39 3.2.1 Lao 'before, to, in, etc.' 39 3.2.2 Lani 'in' 41 3.2.3 Rua 'at the edge of' 43 3.2.4 Xana 'under' 43 3.3 Conclusion 43 4. Child Acquisition of Body Part Terms in SLQZ 44 4.1 Participants 45 4.2 Experimental Design 45 4.2.1 Pre-test 48 4.2.2 Body Part Test 49 4.2.3 Body Part Locative Test 52 4.3 Results 56 4.3.1 Manuel 56 4.3.2 Lorena 56 4.3.3 Andrea 57 4.3.4 Vanesa 58 4.4 Discussion of Results 59 iv
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- Page 10 and 11: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I sincerely thank
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2.9.1 Basic Mean<strong>in</strong>g 27<br />
2.9.2 Metaphorical Extension 28<br />
2.9.3 Project<strong>in</strong>g Space 29<br />
2.9.4 Syntactic Reanalysis 30<br />
3. <strong>Valley</strong> <strong>Zapotec</strong> Colonial Documents 32<br />
3.1 Examples <strong>of</strong> <strong>Body</strong> <strong>Part</strong> Nouns 35<br />
3.1.1 Lao 'face' 35<br />
3.1.2 Rua 'edge' 36<br />
3.1.3 Queque 'head' 37<br />
3.1.4 Ni 'foot' 37<br />
3.1.5 Cue 'side' 38<br />
3.2 Examples <strong>of</strong> <strong>Body</strong> <strong>Part</strong> <strong>Prepositions</strong> 39<br />
3.2.1 Lao 'before, to, <strong>in</strong>, etc.' 39<br />
3.2.2 Lani '<strong>in</strong>' 41<br />
3.2.3 Rua 'at the edge <strong>of</strong>' 43<br />
3.2.4 Xana 'under' 43<br />
3.3 Conclusion 43<br />
4. Child Acquisition <strong>of</strong> <strong>Body</strong> <strong>Part</strong> Terms <strong>in</strong> SLQZ 44<br />
4.1 <strong>Part</strong>icipants 45<br />
4.2 Experimental Design 45<br />
4.2.1 Pre-test 48<br />
4.2.2 <strong>Body</strong> <strong>Part</strong> Test 49<br />
4.2.3 <strong>Body</strong> <strong>Part</strong> Locative Test 52<br />
4.3 Results 56<br />
4.3.1 Manuel 56<br />
4.3.2 Lorena 56<br />
4.3.3 Andrea 57<br />
4.3.4 Vanesa 58<br />
4.4 Discussion <strong>of</strong> Results 59<br />
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