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A grammar of Tariana, from northwest Amazonia /Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, South American Indian (Other) Series: Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2003.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 705 pages) : mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781107266933
  • 9781107050952
  • 9781107270015
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PM7110 .G736 2003
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Contents:
The language and its speakers -- Phonology -- Word classes -- Nominal morphology and noun structure -- Noun classes and classifiers -- Possession -- Case marking and grammatical relations -- Number -- Further nominal categories -- Derivation and compounding -- Closed word classes -- Verb classes and predicate structure -- Valency changing and argument rearranging mechanisms -- Tense and evidentiality -- Aspect, Aktionsart and degree -- Mood and modality -- Negation -- Serial verb constructions and verb compounding -- Complex predicates -- Participles and nominalisations -- Clause types and other syntactic issues.
Subject: A comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from the northwest Amazonian jungle.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

The language and its speakers -- Phonology -- Word classes -- Nominal morphology and noun structure -- Noun classes and classifiers -- Possession -- Case marking and grammatical relations -- Number -- Further nominal categories -- Derivation and compounding -- Closed word classes -- Verb classes and predicate structure -- Valency changing and argument rearranging mechanisms -- Tense and evidentiality -- Aspect, Aktionsart and degree -- Mood and modality -- Negation -- Serial verb constructions and verb compounding -- Complex predicates -- Participles and nominalisations -- Clause types and other syntactic issues.

A comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from the northwest Amazonian jungle.

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