Commands A Cross-Linguistic Typology

by Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.; Dixon, R. M. W.

• ISBN13: 9780198803225
• ISBN10: 0198803222
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-09-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University,R. M. W. Dixon, Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), plus Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (CUP, 2003) and The Manambu language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (OUP, 2008; paperback 2010), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American and Papuan languages and typological issues including evidentials, classifiers, and serial verbs. Her other recent publications with OUP include Languages of the Amazon (2012; paperback 2015), The Art of Grammar (2014), and How Gender Shapes the World (2016). She is co-editor, with R. M. W. Dixon, of The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology (CUP, 2017), and the editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality.

R. M. W. Dixon is Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages (including Dyirbal and Yidin) and a comprehensive historical/typological account Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development (CUP, 2002). He is also the author of A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian (University of Chicago Press, 1988), The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (OUP, 2004; paperback 2011), and A New Approach to English Grammar (OUP, 2005). His other OUP publications include the three volume work Basic Linguistic Theory (2010-12), Making New Words (2014), Edible Gender, Mother-in-Law Style, and Other Grammatical Wonders (2015) and Are Some Languages Better than Others? (2016). His academic biography, I am a Linguist, was published by Brill in 2011.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Notes on the contributors
1. Commands: A cross-linguistic view, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
2. Imperatives and commands in Quechua, Willem F. H. Adelaar
3. The grammatical representation of commands and prohibitions in Aguaruna, Simon E. Overall
4. Imperatives in Ashaninka Satipo (Kampa Arawak) of Peru, Elena Mihas
5. Commands in Zenzontepec Chatino (Otomanguean), Eric W. Campbell
6. What Dyirbal uses instead of commands, R. M. W. Dixon
7. On the heterogeneity of Northern Paiute directives, Tim Thornes
8. Imperatives and commands in Japanese, Nerida Jarkey
9. Commands in Lao, N. J. Enfield
10. Imperatives and command strategies in Tayatuk (Morobe, PNG), Valerie Guerin
11. Imperatives and commands in Nungon, Hannah Sarvasy
12. The imperative paradigm of Korowai, a Greater Awyu language of West Papua, Lourens de Vries
13. Commands as a form of intimacy among the Karawari of Papua New Guinea, Borut Telban
14. Commands in Wolaitta, Azeb Amha
15. Veiled commands: Anthropological perspectives on directives, Rosita Henry
Index