Brook Lillehaugen, Linguistics Department
"Body and Component Part Locative:
An Introduction from a Typological Perspective"
ABSTRACT:
Many languages, including Tlacolula Valley Zapotec (TVZ;Otomanguan) and
Chickasaw (Muskogean) use body and component parts (BCP) words in sentences
which express location. In this talk, I present an introduction to BCP
locative systems and their typology by demonstrating the syntactic and
semantic characteristics of the TVZ and Chickasaw BCP locative system. I
will discuss language change and gramaticalization, metaphor, and the
relation between syntactic category and meaning.