Quechua Expressions of Stance and Deixis.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (338 pages)
- Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Series ; v.11 .
- Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Series .
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Pointing in Space and Time: Deixis and Directional Movement in Schoolchildren's Quechua -- Chapter 3 Demonstrative Deixis in Two Dialects ofAmazonian Quichua -- Chapter 4 Child Acquisition of Quechua Evidentiality and Deictic Meaning -- Chapter 5 Multidimensional Markers of Evidential, Epistemic and Mirative Stance in Cuzco Quechua -- Chapter 6 Discourse Deixis in Southern Quechua: A Case Study on Topic and Focus -- Chapter 7 From Nominal Predicate to Deictic Clausal Highlighter: The Development of hina 'like' -- Chapter 8 Right Peripheral Domains, Deixis and Information Structure in Southern Quechua -- Index.
This volume explores the semantics and pragmatics of Southern Quechua and Ecuadorian Quichua expressions of stance and deixis. This work is the first to study a broad range of stance/deictic phenomena in Quechua and Quichua in-depth.
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Quechua language-Terms and phrases. Quechua language-Deixis. Quechua language-Semantics. Quechua language-Etymology. Indians of South America-Ecuador-Languages. Indians of South America-Peru-Cuzco-Languages. Indians of South America-Bolivia-Languages. Ecuador-Languages. Peru-Cuzco-Languages. Bolivia-Languages.