Overview

Animacy influences the grammar of languages in different ways, although it often goes unnoticed. Did you know that in English there is a strong tendency towards using the Saxon genitive ’s with humans instead of the preposition of? Have you ever hear that some Chinantecan languages encode the animate/inanimate distinction in almost every word, and that in Hatam only human nouns distinguish plural number? This book offers for the first time a comprehensive cross-linguistic study of its effects on morphological systems. How do real data fit the theorethical definition of animacy? Do we observe different types of animacy? Which techniques are employed to encode it? Which categories and features are affected, and how? Data from more than 300 languages provide answers to these (and other) questions.

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Author:   Ekaitz Santazilia
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   19
Weight:   0.897kg
ISBN:  

9789004513051

ISBN 10:   9004513051
Pages:   436
Publication Date:   17 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Tables and Figures Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1 Goals  2 The Organization of This Book  3 Methodological Issues 2 Theoretical Contribution  1 A Brief Explanation of Humanity’s Interest in Animacy  2 Animacy in Linguistics  3 Remarks on the Behavior of Grammatical Animacy  4 The Definition of “Animacy in Inflectional Morphology” 3 Techniques  1 Affixation  2 Alternation  3 Overt Free Elements  4 Reduplication  5 Zero-Marking  6 Morpheme Order  7 Complex Techniques  8 Morphophonemic Techniques  9 Mixed Techniques  10 Summary and Conclusions to Chapter 3 4 Word/Morpheme Classes  1 (Bound) Pronouns  2 Determiners  3 Nouns and Noun Phrases  4 Adjectives  5 Number Markers, Numerals, and Quantifiers  6 Verbs  7 Tense Markers  8 Inversion Markers  9 Adverbs  10 Gender/Noun Class Markers and Classifiers  11 Case Markers and Adpositions  12 Possessive Affixes/Genitives  13 Conjunctions  14 Nominalizers  15 Evidentials  16 Catalyzers  17 Identity Affixes  18 Whatchamacallit Words  19 Summary and Conclusions to Chapter 4 5 Feature: Gender/Noun Class  1 Animacy as a Semantic Feature for Gender Assignment  2 Animacy as a Condition  3 Animacy as a Value-Dependent Semantic Feature  4 Summary and Conclusions to Chapter 5 6 Feature: Number  1 Overt Number Marking in the Controller  2 Overt Number Agreement in the Target  3 Optionality  4 Mismatches between the Controller and the Target  5 Values Distinguished  6 Inverse Number Marking  7 Animacy as a Condition for Agreement Controllers  8 Same Form, Different Number  9 (Apparent) Exceptions to the Relation between Number and High Animacy  10 Summary and Conclusions to Chapter 6 7 Feature: Person  1 Animacy as a Condition for Overt Agreement  2 Animacy as a Condition for Person Values: Semantic vs. Default Marking  3 Animacy as a Condition for Agreement Controllers  4 Obviation  5 Summary and Conclusions to Chapter 7 8 Feature: Case  1 Syntactic/Functional Approach  2 Morphological Approach  3 Summary and Conclusions to Chapter 8 9 Conclusions and Open Issues  1 Three Types of Animacy  2 What Is Animacy?  3 Somewhat Universal  4 Splits and Hierarchy  5 The Purpose of Grammatical Animacy  6 Epilogue Appendix 1: Pronominal System in Zapotecan Languages Appendix 2: Genetic Classification of Languages Appendix 3: Data Sources References Language Index

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Ekaitz Santazilia has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of the Basque Country. He serves as Assistant Professor at the Public University of Navarre. His main research interests are typology, morphology and the history of Basque.

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