UID:
edocfu_9959235934002883
Format:
1 online resource (xxiv, 705 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Digitally printed first paperback version.
ISBN:
1-139-88310-0
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1-107-26406-5
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1-107-26446-4
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1-107-26693-9
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1-107-26337-9
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1-107-27001-4
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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).
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The language and its speakers --
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Phonology --
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Word classes --
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Nominal morphology and noun structure --
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Noun classes and classifiers --
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Possession --
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Case marking and grammatical relations --
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Number --
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Further nominal categories --
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Derivation and compounding --
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Closed word classes --
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Verb classes and predicate structure --
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Valency changing and argument rearranging mechanisms --
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Tense and evidentiality --
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Aspect, Aktionsart and degree --
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Mood and modality --
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Negation --
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Serial verb constructions and verb compounding --
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Complex predicates --
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Participles and nominalisations --
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Clause types and other syntactic issues.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-02886-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-82664-0
Language:
English
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