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The Development Of Statives In Colonial Valley Zapotec, George Aaron Broadwell
The Development Of Statives In Colonial Valley Zapotec, George Aaron Broadwell
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This paper describes the semantics of the Colonial Valley Zapotec aspect prefix WA- (orthographic hua- ~oa-) and its diachronic development in modern Valley and Isthmus Zapotec.
Toward A New Theory Of Waste: From "Matter Out Of Place" To Signs Of Life , Joshua Reno
Toward A New Theory Of Waste: From "Matter Out Of Place" To Signs Of Life , Joshua Reno
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This paper offers a counterpoint to the prevailing account of waste in the human sciences. This account identifies waste, firstly, as the anomalous product of arbitrary social categorizations, or ‘matter out of place’, and, secondly, as a distinctly human way of leaving behind and interpreting traces, or a mirror of culture. Together, these positions reflect a more or less constructivist and anthropocentric approach. Most commonly, waste is placed within a framework that privileges considerations of meaning over materiality and the threat of death over the perpetuity of life processes. For an alternative I turn to bio-semiotics and cross-species scholarship around …
The Copala Triqui Auxiliary Construction For Emotional And Psychological Predicates, George Aaron Broadwell
The Copala Triqui Auxiliary Construction For Emotional And Psychological Predicates, George Aaron Broadwell
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Copala Triqui has a construction in which predicates of emotion and psychological state appear with one of two special auxiliary verbs, derived historically from verbs meaning 'see' and 'look'. This paper details the constraints on the syntax of the emotion auxiliary construction and contrasts it with the ordinary verbal syntax of the language. (Ethnologue code TRC)
Technically Speaking: On Equipping And Evaluating “Unnatural” Language Learners , Joshua Reno
Technically Speaking: On Equipping And Evaluating “Unnatural” Language Learners , Joshua Reno
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This article compares different communicative trials for apes in captivity and children with autism in order to investigate how ideological assumptions about linguistic agency and impairment are constructed and challenged in practice. To the extent that Euro-American techniques of “unnatural” language instruction developed during the Cold War era have been successful, it is because communicative interactions are broken down into basic components, and would-be language learners are equipped with materials, devices, and habits that make up for their distinct bio/social deficits. Such linguistic equipment can present a challenge to the ideological presumption of a subject inherently gifted with the rudiments …