UID:
edocfu_9958353595502883
Format:
1 online resource (1006p.)
Edition:
no CD-ROM in POD-edition
ISBN:
9783110199079
Series Statement:
Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ; 43
Content:
This work is a reference grammar of Hup, a member of the Nadahup family (also known as Makú or Vaupés-Japura), which is spoken in the fascinatingly multilingual Vaupés region of the northwest Amazon. This detailed description and analysis is informed by a functional-typological perspective, with particular reference to areal contact and grammaticalization. The grammar begins with an introduction to the cultural and linguistic background of Hup speakers, gives an overview of the phonology, and follows this with chapters on morphosyntax (nominal morphology, verbs and verb compounding, tense, aspect, modality, evidentiality, etc.); it concludes with discussions of negation, the simple clause, and clause combining. A number of features of Hup grammar are typologically significant, such as its strategy of inversion in question formation, its system of Differential Object Marking, and its treatment of possession. Hup also exhibits several highly unusual paths of grammaticalization, such as the development of a verbal future suffix from the noun ‘stick, tree’
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Chapter 1 Hup and its speakers --
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Chapter 2 Phonology --
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Chapter 3 The architecture of the word: parts of speech and formatives --
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Chapter 4 The noun and nominal morphology --
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Chapter 5 The complex noun: compounding, possession, and noun classification --
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Chapter 6 The noun phrase: modification and definiteness --
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Chapter 7 Nominal discourse-marking morphology --
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Chapter 8 The verb word --
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Chapter 9 The compound verb --
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Chapter 10 Adjectives and adverbial expressions --
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Chapter 11 Adjusting valency --
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Chapter 12 Aspect --
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Chapter 13 Tense and related forms --
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Chapter 14 Modality and evidentiality --
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Chapter 15 Sentence-level affect marking --
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Chapter 16 Negation --
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Chapter 17 Simple clauses --
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Chapter 18 Clause combining --
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Backmatter
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-019588-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110199079
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199079
