A Grammar of Semelai

Kruspe, Nicole

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“…For example, recent work on Menriq (another close Northern Aslian relative of Jahai) and Semnam (a language belonging to the Central Aslian division of Aslian) has revealed odor lexica very similar to that in Jahai (Burenhult field notes 2008). Similarsized sets of stative verbs draw on many of the same cognates (words inherited from ancestral language stages) to make semantic distinctions akin to the Jahai categories described above (see also Kruspe 2004Kruspe , 2010.…”

Section: A Long-standing Preoccupation With Odormentioning

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Olfaction in Aslian Ideology and Language

Burenhult

Majid

2011

The Senses and Society

143

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the cognitive-and neurosciences have supposed that the perceptual world of the individual is dominated by vision, followed closely by audition, but that olfaction is merely vestigial. Aslian-speaking communities (Austroasiatic, Malay Peninsula) challenge this view. For the Jahai -a small group of rainforest foragers -odor plays a central role in both culture and language. Jahai ideology revolves around a complex set of beliefs that structures the human relationship with the supernatural. central to this relationship are hearing, vision, and olfaction. In Jahai language, olfaction also receives special attention. there are at least a dozen or so abstract descriptive odor categories that are basic, everyday terms. this lexical elaboration of odor is not unique to the Jahai but can be seen across many contemporary Austroasiatic languages

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Section: A Long-standing Preoccupation With Odormentioning

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Olfaction in Aslian Ideology and Language

Burenhult

Majid

2011

The Senses and Society

143

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“…Many natural languages have words depictive of sensory perceptions like Japanese nyoronyoro 'wriggling motion' and tsurutsuru 'smooth surface' (Gomi 1989), Semelai rɔprap 'something large walking through twigs' and cəralap 'sound of someone/something entering the undergrowth' (Kruspe 2004), and Gbeya ɛlɛlɛ 'hair waving gently in a breeze' and ɓakat ɓakat 'sound of sandal flapping' (Samarin 1970). Known under the name of 'mimetics' in Japanese linguistics and 'expressives' in South-East Asian languages, the most common cross-linguistic term for such words is 'ideophones' (Diffloth 1972;Kilian-Hatz 2001).…”

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Expressiveness and system integration: On the typology of ideophones, with special reference to Siwu

Dingemanse

2017

STUF - Language Typology and Universals

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Ideophones are often described as words that are highly expressive and morphosyntactically marginal. A study of ideophones in everyday conversations in Siwu (Kwa, eastern Ghana) reveals a landscape of variation and change that sheds light on some larger questions in the morphosyntactic typology of ideophones. This article documents a trade-off between expressiveness and morphosyntactic integration, with high expressiveness linked to low integration and vice versa. It also describes a pathway for deideophonization and finds that frequency of use influences the degree to which ideophones can come to be more like ordinary words. The findings have implications for processes of (de) ideophonization, ideophone borrowing, and ideophone typology. A key point is that the internal diversity we find in naturally occurring data, far from being mere noise, is patterned variation that can help us to get a handle on the factors shaping ideophone systems within and across languages.

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“…These classes are exemplified in (5) and (6) respectively. 6 Besides Nez Perce and closely related Sahaptin (for which see section 6), languages where nominals show three-way distinctions include Australian languages Pitta-Pitta (Blake, 1987), Wangkumara (Breen 1976, Blake 1987, Antekerrepenhe/Aranda (Strehlow 1944, Bittner andHale 1996), Luritja (Holmer, 1963), Duungidjawu/Waga-Waga (Wurm, 1976), Thangu/Yuulngu (Wurm, 1976), and Yidin y (Dixon, 1994, 87); Peruvian language Cashinawa (Dixon, 1994, 86); languages of Nepal such as Nepali (Bandhu, 1973) and Kham (Watters, 1973); Indian languages Nocte (Das Gupta, 1971), Marathi (Pandharipande, 1997), and Hindi; and Malaysian language Semelai (Kruspe, 2004). A larger class of languages could be considered to show a tripartite system if we include languages where both ergative/absolutive and nominative/accusative patterns are attested, but with different sets of nominals; e.g.…”

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Ergative case and the transitive subject: a view from Nez Perce

Deal

2009

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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Ergative case, the special case of transitive subjects, raises questions not only for the theory of case but also for theories of subjecthood and transitivity. This paper analyzes the case system of Nez Perce, a "three-way ergative" language, with an eye towards a formalization of the category of transitive subject. I show that it is object agreement that is determinative of transitivity, and hence of ergative case, in Nez Perce. I further show that the transitivity condition on ergative case must be coupled with a criterion of subjecthood that makes reference to participation in subject agreement, not just to origin in a high argument-structural position. These two results suggest a formalization of the transitive subject as that argument uniquely accessing both high and low agreement information, the former through its (agreement-derived) connection with T and the latter through its origin in the specifier of a head associated with object agreement (v). In view of these findings, I argue that ergative case morphology should be analyzed not as the expression of a syntactic primitive but as the morphological spell-out of subject agreement and object agreement on a nominal.Keywords Nez Perce · ergativity · transitivity · case · agreement · anaphor agreement effect · Sahaptin The category of transitive subjectAn analysis of ergative case, the special case of transitive subjects, can only be as adequate as the theories of subjecthood and transitivity on which it rests. The lack of a complete and satisfying formal analysis of ergative case cannot be independent of the relatively meager attention afforded the study of transitivity within generative grammar, and lack of integration of what is known about transitivity with what is

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A Grammar of Semelai

Cited by 104 publications

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Olfaction in Aslian Ideology and Language

Olfaction in Aslian Ideology and Language

Expressiveness and system integration: On the typology of ideophones, with special reference to Siwu

Ergative case and the transitive subject: a view from Nez Perce

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