Affiliation:
1. Department of African Languages Stellenbosch University 7602 Matieland South Africa
2. Centre for Communication Studies College of Humanities University of Dar es Salaam P. O. Box 35040 Dar es Salaam Tanzania
Abstract
Abstracct
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.
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Communication,Language and Linguistics
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