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A Typological Grammar of Panare, a Cariban Language of Venezuela /

Panare, also known as E'ñapa Woromaipu, is a seriously endangered Cariban language spoken by about 3,500 people in Central Venezuela. A Typological Grammar of Panare by Thomas E. Payne and Doris L. Payne, is a full length linguistic grammar, written from a modern functional/typological perspec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Payne, Thomas Edward, 1951- (Autor), Payne, Doris L., 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: LEIDEN ; BOSTON : BRILL, 2012.
Colección:Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction-The Language and Its Speakers
  • 2 Phonology and Morphophonology
  • Nouns and Nominals
  • Nominal Derivation and "Possessive" Denominalization
  • Modification
  • The Morphosyntax of the Verb: Organizing Principles
  • Verb Derivation
  • Past-Perfective Aspect Constructions
  • Non-Pastperfective Aspect Constructions
  • Minority Class Verbs
  • Noun Phrase Structure
  • Adpositional Phrases and Oblique Constituents
  • Copula Constructions
  • Voice and Valence
  • Knowing and Not Knowing: Epistemic and Negative Categories
  • Commands and the Expression of Deontic Modality
  • Questions
  • Complementation
  • Adverbial and Medial Clauses
  • Relative Clauses.