Egophoricity
Edited by Simeon Floyd, Elisabeth Norcliffe and Lila San Roque
[Typological Studies in Language, 118] 2018. vii, 505 pp.
Simeon Floyd
List of John Benjamins publications for which Simeon Floyd plays a role.
Title
Subjects Morphology | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
2024 Ecuadorian Quechua and Quechuan classification Journal of Historical Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
According to the traditional Quechuan classification which has dominated Andean historical linguistics since the 1960s, the Ecuadorian Quechua group (Andean Quichua, Amazonian Quichua, Colombian Ingano, and lower Pastaza Inga in Peru) belongs to the “Quechua II” branch, supposedly including all… read more
2019 Body-directed gesture and expressions of social difference in Chachi and Afro-Ecuadorian discourse Anthropology of Gesture, Brookes, Heather and Olivier Le Guen (eds.), pp. 281–304 | Article
This paper presents an analysis of a data set consisting of instances of body-directed gesture that occurred in racializing expressions of social difference during ethnographic interviews with two neighboring peoples of Ecuador: the indigenous Chachi, speakers of the Cha’palaa language, and… read more
2018 Chapter 9. Egophoricity and argument structure in Cha’palaa Egophoricity, Floyd, Simeon, Elisabeth Norcliffe and Lila San Roque (eds.), pp. 269–304 | Chapter
The Cha’palaa language of Ecuador (Barbacoan) features verbal morphology for marking knowledge-based categories that, in usage, show a variant of the cross-linguistically recurrent pattern of ‘egophoric distribution': specific forms associate with speakers in contrast to others in statements and… read more
2018 Chapter 1. Egophoricity: An introduction Egophoricity, Floyd, Simeon, Elisabeth Norcliffe and Lila San Roque (eds.), pp. 1–78 | Chapter
2016 Chapter 13. Insubordination in interaction: The Cha’palaa counter-assertive Insubordination, Evans, Nicholas and Honoré Watanabe (eds.), pp. 341–366 | Article
In the Cha’palaa language of Ecuador the main-clause use of the otherwise non-finite morpheme -ba can be accounted for by a specific interactive practice: the ‘counter-assertion’ of statement or implicature of a previous conversational turn. Attention to the ways in which different constructions… read more
2016 Switch reference systems in the Barbacoan languages and their neighbors Switch Reference 2.0, Gijn, Rik van and Jeremy Hammond (eds.), pp. 207–230 | Article
This chapter surveys the available data on Barbacoan languages and their neighbors to explore a case study of switch reference within a single language family and in a situation of areal contact. To the extent possible given the available data, we weigh accounts appealing to common inheritance and… read more
2014 ‘We’ as social categorization in Cha’palaa,
a language of Ecuador Constructing Collectivity: 'We' across languages and contexts, Pavlidou, Theodossia-Soula (ed.), pp. 135–158 | Article
This chapter connects the grammar of the first person collective pronoun in the Cha’palaa language of Ecuador with its use in interaction for collective reference and social category membership attribution, addressing the problem posed by the fact that non-singular pronouns do not have… read more