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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
LEIDEN ; BOSTON :
BRILL,
2012.
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Colección: | Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ;
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Temas: | |
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.