Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 705 pages)
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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.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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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
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Grammatik
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Bibliografie
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781107050952
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