none 10.1075/tsl.70 John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 66134441 1421532 1421459 202507031735000028 10.1075 2025-07-03T11:34:23Z 2013-12-16T18:20:41Z 67 0167-7373 10.1075/tsl https://benjamins.com/ catalog/tsl Fernando Zúñiga Centro de Estudios Públicos, Santiago Chile https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9015-6601 Inverse systems in indigenous languages of the Americas This book proposes a notion of inverse that differs from two widespread positions found in descriptive and typological studies (one of them restrictive and structure-oriented, the other broad and function-centered). This third stance put forward here takes both grammar and pragmatic functions into account, but it also relates the opposition between direct and inverse verbs and clauses to an opposition between deictic values, thereby achieving two advantageous goals: it meaningfully circumvents one of the usual analytic dilemmas, namely whether a given construction is passive or inverse, and it refines our understanding of the cross-linguistic typology of inversion. This framework is applied to the description of the morphosyntax of eleven Amerindian languages (Algonquian: Plains Cree, Miami-Illinois, Ojibwa; Kutenai; Sahaptian: Sahaptin, Nez Perce; Kiowa-Tanoan: Arizona Tewa, Picurís, Southern Tiwa, Kiowa; Mapudungun). 70 11 29 2006 7 1 2008 9789027229823 9789027293046 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/tsl.70 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027293046 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027293046.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/tsl.70/html