The clause-typing system of Plains Cree : indexicality, anaphoricity, and contrast

著者

• Cook, Clare

書誌事項

The clause-typing system of Plains Cree : indexicality, anaphoricity, and contrast

Clare Cook

（Oxford studies of endangered languages）

Oxford University Press, 2014

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-331) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book offers detailed empirical coverage of the syntax and semantics of Plains Cree, an Algonquian language of western Canada. It combines careful elicitation with corpus studies to provide the first systematic investigation of the two distinct verbal inflectional paradigms - independent and conjunct - in the language. The book argues that the independent order denotes an indexical clause type with familiar deictic properties, while the conjunct order is an anaphoric clause type whose reference is determined by rules of anaphoric dependence. Both syntactic and semantic considerations are examined: on the syntactic side, indexical clauses are shown to be restricted to a subset of matrix environments, and to exclude proforms that have clause-external antecedents or induce cross-clausal dependencies. Anaphoric clauses have an elsewhere distribution: they occur in both matrix and dependent contexts, and freely host and participate in cross-clausal dependencies. The semantic discussion focusses primarily on the context in which a proposition is evaluated: it shows that indexical clauses have absolute tense and a speaker origo, consistent with deixis on a speech act; anaphoric clauses, by contrast, use anaphoric dependencies to establish the evaluation context. Data from Plains Cree is compared to the matrix/subordinate system found in English, to the clause-chaining system of the Amele language of Papua New Guinea, and to Romance subjunctive clauses. The book also provides the first micro-typology of pronominal marking and initial change in Algonquian languages.

目次

• 1. Introduction: Indexical versus anaphoric clauses
• 2. Mapping indexical and anaphoric CPs onto Plains Cree's morphosyntax
• 3. Indexical clauses: Plains Cree's independent order
• 4. Anaphoric clauses: Plains Cree's conjunct order
• 5. A syntactic classification of anaphoric clauses
• 6. A semantic classification of anaphoric clauses
• 7. Conclusions

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB1566413X
• ISBN:
  • 9780199654536
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: engcre
• 出版地: Oxford
• ページ数/冊数: xvi, 336 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 497.3
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Cree language -- Clauses
• 親書誌ID:
  • BB11774420