THE GRAMMAR OF INALIENABILITY: POSSESSION AND NOUN INCORPORATION IN PARAGUAYAN GUARANI. (Record no. 204303)
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| Personal name | VELAZQUEZ-CASTILLO, MAURA M. |
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| Title | THE GRAMMAR OF INALIENABILITY: POSSESSION AND NOUN INCORPORATION IN PARAGUAYAN GUARANI. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 337 p. |
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| General note | Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-06, Section: A, page: 2137. |
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| General note | Chair: SUZANNE KEMMER. |
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| Dissertation note | Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO, 1993. |
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| Summary, etc. | This dissertation examines a range of linguistic structures in Paraguayan Guarani which are directly or indirectly associated with the semantic domain of inalienability. The structures analyzed include several possessive constructions, both nominal and clausal, and also a variety of different constructions which involve the co-occurrence of "possessor ascension" and noun incorporation. The study offers an explanatory account of the grammatical behavior of such structures based on the motivational link between their form and their meaning and communicative function. |
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| Summary, etc. | Chapter 1 discusses the theoretical assumptions underlying the analysis and their methodological implications, and provides a descriptive sketch of aspects of Guarani grammar relevant to the data associated with inalienability. The rest of the study is organized in two parts. The first part, which includes Chapter 2 and Chapter 3, offers a preliminary characterization of the notion of inalienability and starts the case study of inalienability in Guarani by analyzing different possessive constructions and showing the relevance of the notion of inalienability for their grammatical properties. |
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| Summary, etc. | Chapter 4 is a transition chapter between Part 1 and Part 2. It describes and characterizes constructions involving noun incorporation, which naturally leads to the understanding of constructions involving noun incorporation and "possessor ascension". The latter constructions crucially involve body-part terms and constitute the central topic of Part 2 of the thesis, which includes Chapter 5 and Chapter 6. Using decontextualized sentences in Chapter 5 and evidence from connected discourse in Chapter 6, it is argued that body-part terms and closely related terms have the highest degree of inalienability. |
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| Summary, etc. | As a contribution for further empirical work on Guarani three appendixes containing data are provided: Appendix A contains a semantic classification of Guarani lexical roots. Appendix B is an inventory of conventionalized incorporated structures, and Appendix C contains the text of a folk tale analyzed in Chapter 6. |
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| Local note | School code: 0033. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Language, Linguistics. |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO. |
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