Motion, Transfer and Transformation: The grammar of change in Lowland Chontal
Loretta O’Connor
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 95] 2007. xiv, 251 pp.
Loretta O’Connor
List of John Benjamins publications for which Loretta O’Connor plays a role.
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Subjects Linguistics of isolated languages | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2012 Take it up, down, and away: Encoding placement and removal in Lowland Chontal Events of Putting and Taking: A crosslinguistic perspective, Kopecka, Anetta and Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds.), pp. 297–326 | Article
This paper offers a structural and semantic analysis of expressions of caused motion in Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca, an indigenous language of southern Mexico. The data were collected using a video stimulus designed to elicit a wide range of caused motion event descriptions. The most frequent event… read more
