Spatial Expression in Caac

Aurélie Cauchard

ISBN 10: 1501511548 / ISBN 13: 9781501511547

Edité par De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Mouton Jul 2018, 2018

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In this study, the author describes the linguistic expression of space in Caac, an endangered and under-documented Oceanic language spoken in New Caledonia, from both a descriptive and theoretical perspective. Part I provides a concise description of Caac grammar, presenting a first formal portrait of this language to the reader. Part II describes the formal and semantic features of the linguistic resources available in Caac to encode spatial relationships. Part III presents the theoretical framework based on and exploring further the vector analysis developed by Bohnemeyer (2012) and Bohnemeyer & O'Meara (2012).In particular, the author proposes an additional sub-category of vectors (Head-unspecified Vectors) which accounts for the uses of centrifugal forms in Caac. The resulting framework provides a systematic account of expressions of orientation as well as location and motion, and to combine the Frames of Reference typology (Pederson et al. 1998; Levinson, 1996, 2003; Bohnemeyer & Levinson, not dated) with an analysis of deictic expressions within a single framework. Special attention, moreover, is given to the use of Caac absolute and deictic directionals in spatial constructions involving Fictive Motion. The analysis of Caac data leads us to introduce an additional category of Fictive Motion beyond those previously recognised in the literature, labelled here 'Anticipated Paths', which in turn shed new light on the nature of vectors and the relationship between location, motion and orientation.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 324 pp. Englisch.

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• Titre: Spatial Expression in Caac
• Éditeur: De Gruyter Mouton, De Gruyter Mouton Jul 2018
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1501511548
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781501511547
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 236 L x 160 H x 24 P (en millimètres) 236 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 24 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 639 grammes

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In this study, the author describes the linguistic expression of space in Caac, an endangered and under-documented Oceanic language spoken in New Caledonia, from both a descriptive and theoretical perspective. Part I provides a concise description of Caac grammar, presenting a first formal portrait of this language to the reader. Part II describes the formal and semantic features of the linguistic resources available in Caac to encode spatial relationships. Part III presents the theoretical framework based on and exploring further the vector analysis developed by Bohnemeyer (2012) and Bohnemeyer & O'Meara (2012).

In particular, the author proposes an additional sub-category of vectors (Head-unspecified Vectors) which accounts for the uses of centrifugal forms in Caac. The resulting framework provides a systematic account of expressions of orientation as well as location and motion, and to combine the Frames of Reference typology (Pederson et al. 1998; Levinson, 1996, 2003; Bohnemeyer & Levinson, not dated) with an analysis of deictic expressions within a single framework. Special attention, moreover, is given to the use of Caac absolute and deictic directionals in spatial constructions involving Fictive Motion. The analysis of Caac data leads us to introduce an additional category of Fictive Motion beyond those previously recognised in the literature, labelled here "Anticipated Paths", which in turn shed new light on the nature of vectors and the relationship between location, motion and orientation.

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Aurélie Cauchard, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji