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Published August 25, 2021 | Version v1
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Conative calls to animals: From Arusa Maasai to a cross-linguistic prototype

Creators

  • 1. Dar es Salaam University College of Humanities
  • 2. Stellenbosch University

Description

The present article expands our empirical and theoretical knowledge of conative animal calls (CACs) in the languages of the world. By drawing on canonical typology and prototype theory – and by contrasting the original evidence related to the category of CACs in Arusa Maasai with the evidence concerning CACs in other languages that is currently available in scholarship – the authors design a cross-linguistic prototype of a CAC and enumerate its 18 prototypical non-formal (semantic-pragmatic) and formal (phonetic, morphological, and syntactic) features.

Notes

Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change. Acknowledgement and citation: Karani, Michael and Alexander Andrason. 2021. Conative calls to animals: From Arusa Maasai to a cross-linguistic prototype. Talk given at the Rift Valley Network Webinar Series. 25/08/2021.

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