
From Space to Time : A Cognitive Analysis of the Cora Locative System and Its Temporal Extensions.
Title:
From Space to Time : A Cognitive Analysis of the Cora Locative System and Its Temporal Extensions.
Author:
Casad, Eugene H.
ISBN:
9789027273246
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (291 pages)
Series:
Human Cognitive Processing ; v.39
Human Cognitive Processing
Contents:
From Space to Time -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Eugene Homer Casad -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of maps -- Abbreviations -- Author's preface -- Editors' preface -- References -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Part 1. Background and orientation -- Chapter 1. The Cora people and their language -- Chapter 2. Theoretical prerequisites -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Overview of Cognitive Grammar -- 2.3 Aspects of imagery and construal -- 2.4 Semantic domains -- 2.5 Figure and ground relations -- 2.5.1 Characterizing figure/ground organization -- 2.5.2 The linguistic side of figure/ground organization -- 2.6 Reference point constructions -- 2.7 Grounding -- 2.8 The viewing arrangement -- 2.9 Grammaticalization processes -- 2.9.1 Overview of grammaticalization -- 2.9.2 Meillet as innovator of the term 'grammaticalization -- 2.9.3 The Cora bi-verbal construction -- 2.9.4 Heine and Reh (1984) -- Part 2. The emergence of the Cora locative system -- Chapter 3. Inventory of Cora and Huichollocative prefixes -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Cora and Huichol sound correspondences -- 3.1.2 Corachol vowel correspondences -- 3.2 Cora and Huichol prefixes: Historical background -- 3.3 The eleven Huichol prefixes vis-à-vis Cora -- 3.3.1 Huichol e- 'ablative' and a- 'allative' -- 3.3.2 Huichol and Cora na- and nu- -- 3.3.3 Huichol ye- and Cora ra- -- 3.4 Locative-directional prefixes unique to Cora -- 3.4.1 Cora ablative uu- -- 3.4.2 Huichol a- allative and Cora ii- allative -- 3.4.3 Cora ve'e- 'covering a surface' or 'coming this way' -- 3.4.4 Cora re'e- 'back and forth' -- 3.4.5 Cora tya- 'in the middle' -- Chapter 4. Emergence of some Cora locative prefixsequences -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Cora locative particle and clitic sources -- 4.3 Cora locative procomplement aúu and subordinator a'u.
4.3.1 Typical usages of the procomplement aúu -- 4.3.2 Typical usages of the locative subordinator á'u -- 4.4 Cora topographic particles and adverbs -- 4.5 Cora -h and an-: Historical evidence from Uto-Aztecan -- 4.5.1 Evidence from Southern Tepehuan -- 4.5.2 Evidence from Tohono O'odham -- 4.5.3 Evidence from Náhuatl -- 4.6 Cora a-ná- and a-nú-: Adverbial demonstrative source -- 4.6.1 Huichol adverbial demonstratives -- 4.6.2 O'odham adverbial demonstratives -- 4.6.3 Yaqui adverbial demonstratives -- 4.7 Cliffs, innards, and metonymies -- 4.7.1 Where did Huichol directional -pa-i go? -- 4.7.2 Cora u-rá- and Southern Tepehuan temporals -- 4.7.3 A pair of downers: a-ká and u-ká -- 4.8 Emergence of Cora topographical adverbs -- 4.9 Verbal locative prefix sequences from Proto-Corachol -- Part 3. From space to time -- Chapter 5. Cora temporals -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Tense-aspect and clausal subordinators -- 5.3 Temporal use of the conditional -- 5.4 Sectors of the day and night cycle -- 5.5 Temporal uses of quantifiers -- 5.6 The temporal verb ha'atyéevi'i -- 5.7 Complex temporal expressions with postpositions -- Chapter 6. Space, events, and time in Cora -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Topography-based models of time -- 6.2.1 The distal form áhka'i -- 6.2.2 The medial form máhka'i -- 6.2.3 The verb antyipwá'araka'a -- 6.3 The horizontal movement of time -- 6.3.1 Time viewed perfectively -- 6.3.2 Heightened perfective wa-ta- -- 6.3.3 Intentive uu- -- 6.3.4 The complex path perfective -- 6.4 Time viewed imperfectively -- 6.5 Time viewed cyclically -- 6.6 Time stands back to back -- Chapter 7. Time and the sequencing of events -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Normal sequence of events A and B -- 7.3 Closure of sequence of events -- 7.4 Event B immediately following event A -- 7.5 The 'instrumental precipitous action' construction.
7.6 The 'delayed temporal succession' scenario -- 7.6.1 Short delay: ha'a¢ú plus main verb -- 7.6.2 Longer delay: The temporal verb ha'atyéevi'i -- 7.7 Events that form a natural sequence -- 7.8 Immediate succession of days -- Chapter 8. Grammatical constructions and theirtemporal usages -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Event B encounters pre-existing condition A -- 8.3 Repetitive senses of time -- 8.4 Remote time -- 8.5 Another view of time: 'no longer' and others -- 8.6 Beginnings, endings, and spans of days and months -- 8.7 Events and their interrelations across clause/sentence boundaries -- 8.8 Temporal grounding via the bi-verbal construction -- 8.9 Definite and indefinite temporals -- Notes -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.
Abstract:
Since Cora is a language on the verge of extinction, this research monograph is undoubtedly the last chance of reading a thorough analysis of the emergence of its grammaticalized locative forms, coupled with a comprehensive account of the extensions from the locative domain to the domain of time. Having spent many years doing fieldwork among Cora speakers, E. Casad occupied the best possible position to undertake this endeavor and to complete it successfully. I know of nobody else who could have done it or would still be able to do it.Nicole Delbecque, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven This careful and detailed analysis of the semantic and conceptual relations between space and time draws on the author's deep experience with the Cora language. Casad works systematically through the extensions of temporal language in Cora, giving a master class in the application of a classical Cognitive Grammar framework to the study of conceptual models and their development.N.J. Enfield, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.
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