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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 705 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 9781107050952

Series Statement: Cambridge grammatical descriptions

Content: This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonian jungle. Its speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as a result most people are fluent in five or six languages. Because of this rampant multilingualism, Tariana combines a number of features inherited from the protolanguage with properties diffused from neighbouring but unrelated Tucanoan languages. Typologically unusual features of the language include: an array of classifiers independent of genders, complex serial verbs, case marking depending on the topicality of a noun, and double marking of case and of number. Tariana has obligatory evidentiality: every sentence contains a special element indicating whether the information was seen, heard, or inferred by the speaker, or whether the speaker acquired it from somebody else. This grammar will be a valuable source-book for linguists and others interested in natural languages.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , 1. The language and its speakers -- 2. Phonology -- 3. Word classes -- 4. Nominal morphology and noun structure -- 5. Noun classes and classifiers -- 6. Possession -- 7. Case marking and grammatical relations -- 8. Number -- 9. Further nominal categories -- 10. Derivation and compounding -- 11. Closed word classes -- 12. Verb classes and predicate structure -- 13. Valency changing and argument rearranging mechanisms -- 14. Tense and evidentiality -- 15. Aspect, Aktionsart and degree -- 16. Mood and modality -- 17. Negation -- 18. Serial verb constructions and verb compounding -- 19. Complex predicates -- 20. Participles and nominalisations -- 21. Clause types and other syntactic issues.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780521028868

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780521826648

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780521826648

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780521028868

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., 1957 - A grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003 ISBN 0521826640

Additional Edition: ISBN 0521028868

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780521028868

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521826648

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: Tariano ; Grammatik ; Bibliografie

DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781107050952

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Format: XXIV, 705 S. , Ill., Kt. , 26 cm

ISBN: 0521826640 , 0521028868 , 9780521028868

Series Statement: Cambridge grammatical descriptions

Note: "First published 2003"--Verso t.p. - Includes bibliographic references (p. [682]-689) and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. A grammar of Tariana, from northwest Amazonia Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003 ISBN 9781107050952

Language: English

Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures

Keywords: Tariano ; Grammatik ; Bibliografie

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URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam032/2003046128.html

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author information: Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. 1957-

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Format: 1 online resource (xxiv, 705 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

Edition: Digitally printed first paperback version.

ISBN: 1-139-88310-0 , 1-107-26406-5 , 1-107-26446-4 , 1-107-26693-9 , 1-107-26337-9 , 1-107-27001-4 , 1-107-05095-2

Series Statement: Cambridge grammatical descriptions

Content: This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonian jungle. Its speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as a result most people are fluent in five or six languages. Because of this rampant multilingualism, Tariana combines a number of features inherited from the protolanguage with properties diffused from neighbouring but unrelated Tucanoan languages. Typologically unusual features of the language include: an array of classifiers independent of genders, complex serial verbs, case marking depending on the topicality of a noun, and double marking of case and of number. Tariana has obligatory evidentiality: every sentence contains a special element indicating whether the information was seen, heard, or inferred by the speaker, or whether the speaker acquired it from somebody else. This grammar will be a valuable source-book for linguists and others interested in natural languages.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , The language and its speakers -- , Phonology -- , Word classes -- , Nominal morphology and noun structure -- , Noun classes and classifiers -- , Possession -- , Case marking and grammatical relations -- , Number -- , Further nominal categories -- , Derivation and compounding -- , Closed word classes -- , Verb classes and predicate structure -- , Valency changing and argument rearranging mechanisms -- , Tense and evidentiality -- , Aspect, Aktionsart and degree -- , Mood and modality -- , Negation -- , Serial verb constructions and verb compounding -- , Complex predicates -- , Participles and nominalisations -- , Clause types and other syntactic issues. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-521-02886-8

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-521-82664-0

Language: English