UID:
almahu_9949481514502882
Format:
1 online resource (307 p.)
ISBN:
9783110341911
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9783110238570
Series Statement:
Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 66
Content:
This book is a reference grammar of Kulina, an Amazonian language spoken in Brazil and Peru. The dialect described by the author is spoken on the upper Purus River in the Brazilian state of Acre. Kulina belongs to the Arawan language family. It is predominantly head-marking and has a complex verbal morphology which is largely agglutinating with some instances of fusion. The language has two noun classes and two genders. The gender agreement of transitive verbs with their arguments is in part governed by intricate grammatical rules and in part pragmatically driven. There are three types of possession, alienable, inalienable, and kinship. The latter category only applies to some kinship nouns, while others are alienably possessed. Kulina has aspirated and unaspirated obstruents, but different aspirated obstruents do not co-occur in one morpheme due to Grassmann's law, a dissimilation process known from Sanskrit and Ancient Greek. The book contains two Kulina texts and a chapter on the lexicon, which discusses colour terms, generic nouns for plants and animals, pet vocatives, idioms, and the origin of loan words.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Table of contents --
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Abbreviations, symbols and conventions --
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Summary --
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1. Introduction --
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2. Phonetics and phonology --
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3. Nouns --
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4. Dynamic verbs --
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5. Stative verbs --
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6. Adjectives --
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7. Other word classes --
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8. Possession --
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9. Noun phrases --
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10. Copula, verbless and existential clauses --
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11. Verbal main clauses --
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12. Clause embedding and coordination --
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13. Adverbial clauses --
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14. Word formation --
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15. Lexicon --
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Text 1 --
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Text 2 --
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References --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110395372
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110339680
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783110341911
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110341911
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110341911
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