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The interface between meronymy and spatial frames of reference use in Diidxa Za (Isthmus Zapotec)| old_uid | 11790 |
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| title | The interface between meronymy and spatial frames of reference use in Diidxa Za (Isthmus Zapotec) |
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| start_date | 2016/06/10 |
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| schedule | 14h-15h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle André Frossard |
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| details | dans le cadre de l'atelier typologie sémantique |
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| summary | Diidxa Za (Isthmus Zapotec, Otomanguean), as many other Mesoamerican languages, readily uses body-part terms to refer to object parts. Several questions have been raised in the literature as to the degree of productivity of these meronyms and the role of metaphor in their semantic extension. MacLaury 1989 presents a global mapping explanation for Ayoquesco Zapotec focusing on the role of metaphor but without explaining the varying degrees of productivity of individual body part-derived meronyms. Levinson 1994, based on an analysis of Tseltal Maya meronyms, questions the metaphor-based explanation and offers an account based on algorithms. I propose an analysis of extensive Diidxa Za data collected in elicitation and experimental tasks and following a Structure Mapping Theory (Gentner 1983, Gentner & Markman 1997, Gentner et al. 2001, inter alia) approach to explain that the different degrees of productivity of body part-derived meronyms correspond to the three types of comparisons proposed by the theory. In addition, this approach sheds light on questions about frame of reference preferences in Diidxa Za to show that in cases of abstraction and greater productivity of body part-derived meronyms, the otherwise disprefered relative (egocentric) frame of reference becomes critical. Overall, this provides a comprehensive description of meronyms and frames of reference use in Diidxa Za and likely the most comprehensive description of this type for any Mesoamerican language. |
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