The Grammar of Body-Part Expressions

Roberto Zariquiey is Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He also holds affiliated positions at the University of Zurich, the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, and the National Geographic Society. His PhD thesis, a reference grammar of Kakataibo, was published by De Gruyter in 2018, and his work has been published in multiple journals and edited volumes in Spanish and English. He is currently coordinating a language revitalization program for the Iskonawa people. Pilar M. Valenzuela is Professor at Chapman University in Southern California, having previously held a fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Her dissertation on transitivity in Shipibo-Konibo grammar received the Mary R. Haas book award in 2003. Alongside her academic research, she maintains close collaboration with Indigenous communities and has produced works for the Intercultural Bilingual Education model.

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The contributors
1: Roberto Zariquiey and Pilar M. Valenzuela: Introduction
2: Christian Lehmann: Foundations of body-part grammar
Part I. Categorialization, lexicalization, and semantic processes associated with body-part expressions
3: Matt Coler, Bertie Kaal, and Edwin Banegas-Flores: The use of nayra 'eye' in Muqlaq' Aymara: Body, time, and space
4: Jack Bowers: Pathways and patterns of metaphor and metonymy in Mixtepec-Mixtec body-part terms
5: Paola Cúneo and Cristina Messineo: Body parts in Toba: From the biological to the emotional domain
6: Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada: Body-part categorization and grammar in Piaroa
7: Wilson de Lima Silva: A typology of body-part words in Eastern Tukanoan languages
Part II. The grammar of body-part expressions
8: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Tariana body parts in North Arawak perspective: What makes a human live?
9: Swintha Danielsen and Lena Terhart: Body-part terms in Baure and Paunaka: A comparative analysis
10: Sidi Facundes, Marília Freitas, and Bruna Fernanda Lima-Padovani: The grammar of body parts in Apurinã
11: Marianne Mithun: Topicality, affectedness, and body-part grammar
12: Alejandra Vidal and Verónica Nercesian: Body parts and possessive constructions in Mataguayan languages
13: Felipe Hasler, Mariana Poblete, Consuelo Sandoval, Felipe Neira, Daniela Aristegui, and Ricardo Pineda: Body-part terms in Mapudungun: Word-formation strategies and syntactic behavior
14: Pilar M. Valenzuela: Plant and animal body-part terms in Shiwulu grammar: Classification, nominalization, and incorporation
15: David W. Fleck: Vestiges of body-part prefixation in Marubo
16: Roberto Zariquiey, Jaime Montoya, Juana Ticona, Luz Carhuachín, Yessica Reyes, Roxana Quispe-Collantes, José Paz, and Aarón Torres: The grammar of body-part expressions in Iskonawa: Lexicalization, possession, prefixation, and incorporation
17: Roberto Zariquiey and Pilar M. Valenzuela: Body-part nouns, prefixation, incorporation, and compounding in Panoan and Takanan: Evidence for the Pano-Takanan hypothesis?
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