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This volume focuses on the form and the function of commands-directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders-from a typological perspective. Authors analyse the marking and meaning of commands in a range of typologically diverse languages on the basis of extensive fieldwork and in a way that allows useful comparison.
List of contents
- Preface
- Notes on the contributors
- Abbreviations
- 1: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Imperatives and commands: A cross-linguistic view
- 2: Willem F. H. Adelaar: Imperatives and commands in Quechua
- 3: Simon E. Overall: The grammatical representation of commands and prohibitions in Aguaruna
- 4: Elena Mihas: Imperatives in Ashaninka Satipo (Kampa Arawak) of Peru
- 5: Eric W. Campbell: Commands in Zenzontepec Chatino (Otomanguean)
- 6: R. M. W. Dixon: What Dyirbal uses instead of commands
- 7: Tim Thornes: On the heterogeneity of Northern Paiute directives
- 8: Nerida Jarkey: Imperatives and commands in Japanese
- 9: N. J. Enfield: Linguistic expression of commands in Lao
- 10: Valérie Guérin: Imperatives and command strategies in Tayatuk (Morobe, PNG)
- 11: Hannah S. Sarvasy: Imperatives and commands in Nungon
- 12: Lourens de Vries: The imperative paradigm of Korowai, a Greater Awyu language of West Papua
- 13: Borut Telban: Commands as a form of intimacy among the Karawari of Papua New Guinea
- 14: Azeb Amha: Commands in Wolaitta
- 15: Rosita Henry: Veiled commands: Anthropological perspectives on directives
- Index of authors
- Index of languages, peoples, language families and areas
- Index of subjects
About the author
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 A 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 Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality (OUP, 2018).
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 Yidiñ) 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.
Summary
This volume focuses on the form and the function of commands-directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders-from a typological perspective. Authors analyse the marking and meaning of commands in a range of typologically diverse languages on the basis of extensive fieldwork and in a way that allows useful comparison.
