The Grammar of Body-Part Expressions A View from the Americas

Roberto Zariquiey, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú,Pilar M. Valenzuela, Professor, Chapman University

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