Spatial Expression in Caac: An Oceanic Language Spoken in the North of New Caledonia (Pacific Linguistics [PL], 650) - Hardcover

Cauchard, Aurélie

 
9781501511547: Spatial Expression in Caac: An Oceanic Language Spoken in the North of New Caledonia (Pacific Linguistics [PL], 650)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1501511548 ISBN 13: 9781501511547
Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

In this study, the author describes the linguistic expression of space in Caac, an endangered and under-documented Oceanic language spoken in New Caledonia, from both a descriptive and theoretical perspective. Part I provides a concise description of Caac grammar, presenting a first formal portrait of this language to the reader. Part II describes the formal and semantic features of the linguistic resources available in Caac to encode spatial relationships. Part III presents the theoretical framework based on and exploring further the vector analysis developed by Bohnemeyer (2012) and Bohnemeyer & O'Meara (2012).

In particular, the author proposes an additional sub-category of vectors (Head-unspecified Vectors) which accounts for the uses of centrifugal forms in Caac. The resulting framework provides a systematic account of expressions of orientation as well as location and motion, and to combine the Frames of Reference typology (Pederson et al. 1998; Levinson, 1996, 2003; Bohnemeyer & Levinson, not dated) with an analysis of deictic expressions within a single framework. Special attention, moreover, is given to the use of Caac absolute and deictic directionals in spatial constructions involving Fictive Motion. The analysis of Caac data leads us to introduce an additional category of Fictive Motion beyond those previously recognised in the literature, labelled here "Anticipated Paths", which in turn shed new light on the nature of vectors and the relationship between location, motion and orientation.

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Aurélie Cauchard, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji

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Verlag
De Gruyter Mouton
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1501511548
ISBN 13 
9781501511547
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
324
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