Motion, Transfer and Transformation: the Grammar of Change in Lowland Chontal (Studies in Language Companion Series, Volume 95)

Motion, Transfer and Transformation......Page 2 Editorial page......Page 3 Title page......Page 4 LCC data......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 10 List of tables......Page 12 Abbreviations and conventions.......Page 14 1. Introduction......Page 16 1.2 Predicate types and framing strategies......Page 19 1.3 The language and the speakers......Page 23 1.4 Fieldwork and data......Page 29 1.5 Theoretical context......Page 33 2. GRAMMATICAL FEATURES OF LOWLAND CHONTAL......Page 47 2.1 Phonology and morphophonemics......Page 48 2.2 Nouns and nominal morphology......Page 51 2.3 Verbs and verbal morphology......Page 56 2.4 Other minor word classes......Page 70 2.5 Clause types......Page 71 3.1 Classes of ‘change’ verbs......Page 77 3.2 Basic constructions of simple predicates of change......Page 80 3.3 Endpoints and end-states of change......Page 84 3.4 Path elaboration and trajectory of change......Page 100 3.5 Means of change......Page 106 3.6 Restrictions on the undergoer referent......Page 114 3.7 Summary and conclusions......Page 122 4. COMPLEX PREDICATES OF ASSOCIATED MOTION AND ASSOCIATED CHANGE......Page 123 4.1 Introduction......Page 124 4.2 Basic constructions of associated motion and change......Page 126 4.3 Subevents of motion ‘away from here’ and ‘to there’......Page 127 4.4 Andative and dislocative in narrative discourse......Page 132 4.5 Associated ‘motion’ in change of state predications......Page 140 4.6 Subevents of motion ‘to or toward here’......Page 145 4.7 Conclusions......Page 153 5. COMPLEX PREDICATES OF ASSOCIATED DIRECTION AND TOPOLOGICAL RELATION......Page 155 5.1 Introduction......Page 156 5.2 Components of the V1-DTR compound stem......Page 159 5.3 Compound stems and constructional meaning......Page 171 5.4 The means construction......Page 182 5.5 The dispositional construction......Page 195 5.6 The classificatory construction......Page 207 5.7 The trajectory construction......Page 219 5.8 Summary and conclusions......Page 229 6.1 The grammar of change, in typological and discourse-functional perspective......Page 231 6.2 Documentation of an understudied language......Page 240 APPENDIX: Compound stem verbs, by construction type......Page 243 REFERENCES......Page 247 INDEX......Page 263 The series Studies in Language Companion Series......Page 267 Typologies are critical tools for linguists, but typologies, like grammars, are known to leak. This book addresses the question of typological overlap from the perspective of a single language. In Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca, a language of southern Mexico, change events are expressed with three types of predicates, and each predicate type corresponds to a different language type in the well-known typology of lexicalization patterns established by Talmy and elaborated by others. O'Connor evaluates the predictive powers of the typology by examining the consequences of each predicate type in a vari