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 ...
4.5 Conclusions There is no evidence from my data that the SLQZ learning children acquire prepositions in a different order than children acquiring other languages. Furthermore, there is no evidence that the fact that these prepositions are homophonous with body part words affects their acquisition at all. The fact that the youngest child, Vanesa 1;6, had acquired làa'iny 'in', but not làa'iny 'stomach' seems to be the strongest evidence in support of a grammatical dissociation between the words, and the other dissociations also offer support of a categorial difference between the BP nouns and locatives. Similar patterns of dissociation were also found in Jensen de López's data (1999 and 2002). If the child acquires 'in' before 'stomach', then it does not make sense to argue that the child's use of 'in' is a metaphorical extension of 'stomach'. This, of course, has implications for adult grammar as well: if children acquire these lexical items separately and thus do not derive the location sense of the BP term from the BP noun, it seems unlikely that adults do. 6.0 Conclusions In this thesis I argued that the BP terms used in locative expressions should be classified as prepositions. I presented syntactic evidence from modern VZ languages supporting this and data from Colonial VZ documents which are consistent with the prepositional analysis and show that this distinction has been around for at least 200 years. The data from child acquisition of Zapotec further supports the categorial 65
distinction between BP nouns and BP locatives through a dissociation between the acquisition of the body part and the corresponding locative expressions. The path of syntactic and semantic change that would be necessary to develop this system is not extraordinary, and can be accounted for using already existing and well established types of change. 66
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<strong>of</strong> change.<br />
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