Deixis and Alignment: Inverse systems in indigenous languages of the Americas (Typological Studies in Language)

This book proposes a notion of inverse that differs from two widespread positions found in descriptive and typological studies (one of them restrictive and structure-oriented, the other broad and function-centered). This third stance put forward here takes both grammar and pragmatic functions into account, but it also relates the opposition between direct and inverse verbs and clauses to an opposition between deictic values, thereby achieving two advantageous goals: it meaningfully circumvents one of the usual analytic dilemmas, namely whether a given construction is passive or inverse, and it refines our understanding of the cross-linguistic typology of inversion. This framework is applied to the description of the morphosyntax of eleven Amerindian languages (Algonquian: Plains Cree, Miami-Illinois, Ojibwa; Kutenai; Sahaptian: Sahaptin, Nez Perce; Kiowa-Tanoan: Arizona Tewa, Picurís, Southern Tiwa, Kiowa; Mapudungun). Deixis and Alignment......Page 2 Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 LCC data......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Foreword......Page 10 List of abbreviations......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 I. Alignment and direction......Page 18 1. Alignment and alignment types......Page 20 2. On polynomy and types......Page 24 3. Hierarchical alignment......Page 33 4. Summary......Page 41 1. Grammatical categories involved......Page 42 2. Parameters of direction......Page 60 3. Summary......Page 80 III. Algonquian languages......Page 82 1. Plains Cree......Page 83 2. Miami-Illinois......Page 100 3. Central Ojibwa......Page 107 4. Toward Algonquian grammatical relations......Page 123 5. Summary of Algonquian languages......Page 139 1. Kutenai direction......Page 142 2. Summary......Page 156 V. Sahaptian languages......Page 158 1. Sahaptin......Page 159 2. Nez Perce......Page 169 3. Summary of Sahaptian languages......Page 181 VI. Kiowa-Tanoan languages......Page 186 1. Klaiman’s (1991, 1992) view of Tanoan......Page 187 2. A second opinion on Tanoan......Page 197 3. Tanoan direction systems......Page 200 4. Watkins’s (1984) view of Kiowa......Page 203 5. A second opinion on Kiowa......Page 213 6. Summary of Kiowa-Tanoan languages......Page 222 VII. Mapudungun......Page 224 1. Mapudungun verb morphology and clause structure......Page 225 2. Analyses of Mapudungun......Page 236 3. Direction in Mapudungun......Page 254 1. Summary of the languages discussed......Page 258 2. Lessons and prospects......Page 275 Appendix 1: Algonquian paradigms......Page 278 Appendix 2: Analysis of Kiowa personal prefixes......Page 286 Appendix 3: Optimality-theoretic syntax of inverses......Page 288 References......Page 300 Language index......Page 314 Author index......Page 316 Subject index......Page 320 The series Typological Studies in Language......Page 323 Ch. I. Alignment And Direction -- Ch. Ii. A Theory Of Direction -- Ch. Iii. Algonquian Languages -- Ch. Iv. Kutenai -- Ch. V. Sahaptian Languages -- Ch. Vi. Kiowa-tanoan Languages -- Ch. Vii. Mapudungun -- Ch. Viii. Conclusions -- App. 1. Algonquian Paradigms -- App. 2. Analysis Of Kiowa Personal Prefixes -- App. 3. Optimality-theoretic Syntex Of Inverses. Fernando Zúñiga. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [287]-300) And Indexes.