UID:
almahu_9949702737902882
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 467 pages)
ISBN:
9789004242197
Series Statement:
Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas ; 5
Content:
Panare, also known as E'ñapa Woromaipu, is a seriously endangered Cariban language spoken by about 3,500 people in Central Venezuela. A Typological Grammar of Panare by Thomas E. Payne and Doris L. Payne, is a full length linguistic grammar written from a modern functional and typological perspective. The many remarkable characteristics highlighted in the grammar include a 'split-inverse' person marking system, transitivity-sensitive aspect and person-marking verb morphology, object incorporation, relatively nonconfigurational NP structure, both verb-initial and object-initial constituent orders, a complex system of clause chaining, switch reference, and a rich system of evidential and epistemic marking.
Note:
Front Matter -- The Language and Its Speakers -- Phonology and Morphophonology -- Nouns and Nominals -- Nominal Derivation and "Possessive" Denominalization -- Modification -- The Morphosyntax of the Verb: Organizing Principles -- Verb Stem Derivation -- Past-Perfective Aspect Constructions -- Non-Pastperfective Aspect Constructions -- Minority Class Verbs -- Noun Phrase Structure -- Adpositional Phrases and Oblique Constituents -- Copula Constructions -- Voice and Valence -- Knowing and Not Knowing: Epistemic and Negative Categories -- Commands and the Expression of Deontic Modality -- Questions and Contrastive Constructions -- Complementation -- Adverbial and medial clauses -- Relative and Modifying Clauses -- Two Short Panare Texts -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Payne, Thomas Edward, 1951- author. Typological Grammar of Panare, a Cariban Language of Venezuela. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012 ISBN 9789004228214
Language:
English
