Grammar of Tariana, From Northwest Amazonia

Informationen zum Autor Alexandra Aikhenvald is Professor of Linguistics and Associate Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. Her books include Language Contact in Amazonia (2003) and The Amazonian languages (co-edited with R. M. W. Dixon, Cambridge University Press, 1999). She has done extensive fieldwork on numerous Arawak languages from Brazil and has published a collection of texts in Tariana and also a Tariana-Portuguese dictionary. Zusammenfassung Tariana is an endangered Arawak language from the northwest Amazonian jungle. It exists in a strongly multilingual environment and often combines its own features with those borrowed from neighboring indigenous languages. Tariana has many unusual properties! including evidentiality. This grammar provides a unique resource for a wide range of linguists. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables, schemes and diagrams; Preface; Acknowledgements; Organisation and cross-referencing; List of abbreviations; Map; 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; 22. Subordinate clauses and clause linking; 23. Relative clauses; 24. Complement clauses; 25. Discourse organisation; 26. Issues in etymology and semantics; Appendix; Texts; Vocabulary; References; Index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: A. 'Iu Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. (La Trobe University Aikhenvald, Aikhenvald Alexandra Y., Aikhenvald Alexandra y.
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521028868
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02886-8
• Pages: 732
• Thèmes: Cambridge Grammatical Descript; Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Autres langues / Autres littératures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, South American and Caribbean indigenous languages, South American & Caribbean indigenous languages