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1 Online-Ressource (279 pages)
ISBN:
9781477308332
Series Statement:
Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
Content:
List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction to the languages and their speakers -- 1.1 The Xinkan linguistic context -- 1.2 Past work with the Xinkan languages -- 1.3 The Xinkan social and cultural contexts -- 1.4 Organization of the grammar -- 1.4.1 Description of data sources -- Part 1. The use of the Xinkan languages: Synchronic grammar -- Chapter 2. Phonology -- 2.1 Vowels -- 2.1.1 Vowel length -- 2.1.2 Vowel harmony -- 2.2 Consonants -- 2.2.1 Guazacapán -- 2.2.2 Chiquimulilla -- 2.2.3 Jumaytepeque -- 2.2.4 Yupiltepeque -- 2.2.5 Consonant distribution -- 2.3 Phonological alternations -- 2.3.1 Glottalization -- 2.3.2 Voicing of stop following a nasal -- 2.3.3 Nasal assimilation -- 2.3.4 Lenition to [h] -- 2.3.5 Vowel raising -- 2.3.6 Glottal-stopepenthesis -- 2.3.7 Consonant dissimilation -- 2.3.8 Guazacapán consonant deletion -- 2.4 Syllable structure -- 2.5 Stress -- 2.6 Orthography -- Chapter 3. Morphology -- 3.1 Nouns -- 3.1.1 Possession -- 3.1.2 Number -- 3.1.3 Diminutive constructions -- 3.2 Adjectives -- 3.2.1 Adjectives as modifiers of nouns -- 3.2.2 Adjectives modified by ki 'very' -- 3.2.3 Comparative and superlative constructions -- 3.3 Determiners -- 3.3.1 Articles -- 3.3.2 Demonstratives -- 3.3.3 Quantifiers -- 3.4 Noun phrases -- 3.5 Pronouns -- 3.5.1 Independent personal pronouns -- 3.5.2 Dependent pronouns -- 3.6 Verbs -- 3.6.1 Verb classes and transitivity -- 3.6.2 Subject agreement -- 3.6.3 Grammatical aspect -- 3.6.4 Imperative form -- 3.6.5 Contrastive construction in Guazacapán -- 3.6.6 Tense -- 3.6.7 Grammatical voice -- 3.6.8 Mood and modality -- 3.7 Relational nouns -- 3.8 Verbal particles -- 3.8.1 p'e/p'eh directional particle -- 3.6.2 Subject agreement -- 3.6.3 Grammatical aspect -- 3.6.4 Imperative form -- 3.6.5 Contrastive construction in Guazacapán
Content:
3.6.6 Tense -- 3.6.7 Grammatical voice -- 3.6.8 Mood and modality -- 3.7 Relational nouns -- 3.8 Verbal particles -- 3.8.1 p'e/p'eh directional particle -- 3.8.2 wa optative particle -- 3.8.3 Negative imperative particle in Guazacapán -- 3.8.4 Verbs borrowed from Spanish -- 3.9 Nominal particles -- 3.9.1 kumu 'as' -- 3.9.2 tiʼi-/tʼi- direct object -- 3.9.3 ʼi- reflexive in Guazacapán -- 3.9.4 ki' -- 3.9.5 kiki-/kih -- 3.10 Question words -- 3.11 Conjunctions -- 3.12 Derivational morphology -- 3.12.1 Noun derivations -- 3.12.2 Adjective derivations -- 3.12.3 Verbal derivation -- Chapter 4. Syntax -- 4.1 Syntactic alignment -- 4.1.1 Grammatical relations -- 4.1.2 Semantic relations -- 4.1.3 Antipassive and verb agreement -- 4.2 Simple sentence formation -- 4.2.1 Sentences with verbs -- 4.2.2 Copular sentences -- 4.3 Question formation -- 4.3.1 Yes/no questions -- 4.3.2 Content questions (wh-questions) -- 4.4 Preposing -- 4.5 Negation -- 4.6 Complex sentence formation -- 4.6.1 Conjoined clauses -- 4.6.2 Serial verb constructions -- 4.6.3 Relative clauses -- 4.6.4 Complement clauses -- 4.6.5 Adverbial clauses -- 4.6.6 Conditional clauses -- Chapter 5. Na Mulha Uy -- 5.1 Text -- Part 2. The development of the Xinkan languages: Diachronic grammar -- Chapter 6. Historical phonology -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Commentary on the reconstruction of Proto-Xinkan -- 6.3 Proto-Xinkanphonological reconstruction -- 6.3.1 Consonants -- 6.3.2 Vowel changes -- 6.4 Summary of sound changes -- 6.5 Subgrouping -- 6.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Historical morphology -- 7.1 Pronouns and pronominal affixes -- 7.1.1 Pronouns -- 7.1.2 Pronominal affixes -- 7.2 Bound morphology -- Chapter 8. Historical syntax -- 8.1 Overview of syntactic reconstruction -- 8.2 Xinkan syntactic reconstruction -- 8.2.1 Syntactic alignment -- 8.2.2 Verb classes -- 8.2.3 Word order
Content:
8.2.4 Nominal syntax reconstruction -- Chapter 9. Looking forward -- 9.1 Genetic affiliation -- 9.2 Typological characteristics -- 9.3 Vitality: Xinkan as a family of endangered languages -- 9.4 Geographical context: Xinkan as a consequence of Mesoamerican geographical contact and history -- Appendix -- Regular verb conjugation -- Irregular verb conjugation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Typological Index -- General Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781477308318
Additional Edition:
Print version Rogers, Chris The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages Austin, TX : University of Texas Press,c2016 ISBN 9781477308318
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English
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