Spatial orientation and grammaticalization

• Published in: Acta Linguistica Hungarica
• Main Author: Sipőcz, Katalin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Akadémiai Kiadó 2005
• Subjects: P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia; nyelvészet; Back Head; mansi; Mansi
• Online Access: http://real.mtak.hu/54909/; http://real.mtak.hu/54909/1/aling.52.2005.4.5.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1556/ALing.52.2005.4.5

The focus of this paper is on a probably universal type of grammaticalization whereby body part terms turn into place-denoting morphemes (adverbs, postpositions or local case markers). The linguistic expressions of the major areas of deictic orientation in the Mansi language are analysed on the basi...