Valence Changes in Zapotec
Synchrony, diachrony, typology
Editors
Zapotec languages present a wide range of lexical, morphological, phonological, and syntactic means of indicating valence changes. Despite their significant theoretical interest, detailed descriptions of valence-changing phenomena in Zapotec are rare, comparative studies are practically non-existent, and Zapotec contributions to the general typology of valence-changing phenomena still remain largely untapped. The present volume addresses this imbalance by being the first to explore Zapotec valence-changing constructions in depth, and to highlight their broad comparative, typological, and theoretical significance. This book contains both write-ups of contributions to the Special Session on Valence-Changing Devices in Zapotecan (annual meeting of SSILA, 2012) and specially commissioned chapters. It will be of interest to Zapotecanists, Otomangueanists, Mesoamericanists, typologists, morphologists, syntacticians, semanticians, and general linguists with an interest in valence-changing phenomena, and may also be used as supplementary reading in field methods and typology courses.
[Typological Studies in Language, 110] 2015. xiii, 385 pp.
Publishing status:
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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List of Contributors | pp. vii–viii
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List of abbreviations and special symbols | pp. ix–xiv
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Chapter 1. Foreword: Rethinking perspectives in typologyLeonid Kulikov | pp. 1–6
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Chapter 2. Introduction: A closer look at ZapotecNatalie Operstein and Aaron Huey Sonnenschein | pp. 7–22
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Chapter 3. Valence-altering operations in zapotecNatalie Operstein | pp. 23–54
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Chapter 4. Valence alternations in the Tlacolula Valley Zapotec lexiconPamela Munro | pp. 55–78
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Chapter 5. Valence-changing morphology in San Dionisio Ocotepec ZapotecGeorge Aaron Broadwell | pp. 79–92
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Chapter 6. Morphological valence-changing processes in Juchitán ZapotecGabriela Pérez Báez | pp. 93–116
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Chapter 7. Valence-changing operations in Coatecas Altas ZapotecJoseph Benton | pp. 117–138
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Chapter 8. Valency-changing devices in two Southern Zapotec languagesRosemary G. Beam de Azcona | pp. 139–174
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Chapter 9. Valence-changing operations in Zaniza ZapotecNatalie Operstein | pp. 175–190
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Chapter 10. Agency and verb valence in Lachixío ZapotecMark A. Sicoli | pp. 191–212
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Chapter 11. Changes in valence in San Andrés Yaá ZapotecMichael Galant | pp. 213–236
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Chapter 12. Causative morphology in Macuiltianguis ZapotecJohn Foreman and Sheila Ann Dooley | pp. 237–280
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Chapter 13. Indirect object ‘lowering’ in San Bartolomé Zoogocho ZapotecAaron Huey Sonnenschein | pp. 281–296
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Chapter 14. Zapotec reciprocalsPamela Munro | pp. 297–322
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Chapter 15. Verb inflection and valence in ZapotecNatalie Operstein | pp. 323–344
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Chapter 16. Valence change: General and Zapotec perspectivesSeppo Kittilä | pp. 345–380
“The rich contemporary variation in valence across the Zapotec languages combined with the historical perspective – the documentation of Zapotec dates back to the sixteenth century – provides a wealth of empirical data and analyses directly relevant to current issues at the forefront of current research on valence. The historical development from transparent affixation as a marker of transitivization to a series of morphophonemic alternations challenges classifications of languages in terms of direction of derivation between transitive and intransitive counterparts.”
Bernard Comrie, University of California at Santa Barbara
“I believe the volume is successful in presenting both the variety of valence-changing devices in Zapotec languages as well as in fully demonstrating the great similarities which unite their grammars. I believe that a reader will indeed come away from this volume with a good understanding of these phenomena in the languages.”
Ryan Sullivant, University of Texas, on Linguist List 27.3553 (2016)
Cited by (3)
Cited by three other publications
Operstein, Natalie
2024. Grammar and grammaticalization in Zapotec. STUF - Language Typology and Universals 77:1 ► pp. 33 ff. 
Uchihara, Hiroto & Ambrocio Gutiérrez
2021. Teotitlán Zapotec: An ‘activizing’ language. Linguistic Typology 25:2 ► pp. 257 ff.
de Azcona, Rosemary G. Beam
2017. Chapter 3. Spanish infinitives borrowed into Zapotec light verb constructions. In Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond [Studies in Language Companion Series, 185], ► pp. 55 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF/2JN: Linguistics/North & Central American indigenous languages
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General