A grammar of Kwaza /
This is a comprehensive description of the Kwaza language of Southern Rond nia, in the Brazilian Amazon. Kwaza is not clearly related to any other known language. Until recently, almost nothing was known about Kwaza and with only 25 remaining speakers this indigenous language is likely to become ext...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2004.
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Colección: | Mouton grammar library ;
29. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; Index of tables; Maps; Plates; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The sounds of Kwaza; Chapter 3 Parts of speech and constituent order; Chapter 4 The noun phrase; Chapter 5 The verb phrase; Chapter 6 Adverbs and adverbial expressions; Chapter 7 Other morphosyntactic structures; Chapter 8 Subordination and coordination; Chapter 9 Lexico-semantic categories; 1. Introduction; 2. Traditional tales; 3. Historical personal accounts; 4. Modern personal accounts; 5. Translated text; 6. Songs; Dictionary; 1. Introduction; 2. Kwaza-English vocabulary
- 3. English-Kwaza indexReferences; Indices of affixes; Subject index; Tales and songs of the Kwaza