Quechua Expressions of Stance and Deixis

by Marilyn Manley (Editor)

Overview

Quechua Expressions of Stance and Deixis explores the semantics and pragmatics of Southern Quechua and Ecuadorian Quichua expressions, considered as markers of stance and deixis. This volume is the first to study a broad range of stance/deictic phenomena in Peruvian and Bolivian Quechua and Ecuadorian Quichua in-depth, with examples that have been elicited as well as captured from natural discourse. Each chapter investigates these expressions through fieldwork and experimental studies, many employing original methodologies. As such, this work stands as an important contribution to the study of an endangered language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004289567
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/13/2015
Series:	Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Series , #11
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Marilyn S. Manley, Ph.D. (2004), is Associate Professor of Spanish at Rowan University. She has published on topics of both theoretical and applied Quechua and Hispanic linguistics, including “Quechua language attitudes and maintenance in Cuzco, Peru” (Language Policy, 7(4) 2008).

Antje Muntendam, Ph.D. (2009), is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at Florida State University (FSU). Before joining FSU, she was Assistant Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen. She has published on Quechua-Spanish bilingualism in journals such as Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

Contributors include Marilyn S. Manley and Antje Muntendam (editors), Susan E. Kalt, Janis Nuckolls, Tod Swanson, Belinda Ramirez Spencer, Ellen H. Courtney, Pieter Muysken and Liliana Sánchez.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures vi

Notes on Contributors x

1 Introduction Marilyn S. Manley Antje Muntendam Susan E. Katt 1

2 Pointing in Space and Time: Deixis and Directional Movement in Schoolchildren's Quechua Susan E. Katt 25

3 Demonstrative Deixis in Two Dialects of Amazonian Quichua Janis Nuckolls Tod Swanson Belinda Ramirez Spencer 75

4 Child Acquisition of Quechua Evidentiality and Deictic Meaning Ellen H. Courtney 101

5 Multidimensional Markers of Evidential, Epistemic and Mirative Stance in Cuzco Quechua Marilyn S. Manley 145

6 Discourse Deixis in Southern Quechua: A Case Study on Topic and Focus Antje Muntendam 208

7 From Nominal Predicate to Deictic Clausal Highlighter: The Development of hina 'like' Pieter Muysken 259

8 Right Peripheral Domains, Deixis and Information Structure in Southern Quechua Liliana Sánchez 287

Index 323