A grammar of Kukama-Kukamiria : a language from the Amazon /

This book offers a comprehensive description of Kukama-Kukamiria, spoken by about 1000 elders in the Peruvian Amazon. This grammar comes from fifteen years of fieldwork; it is organized in seventeen chapters dealing with phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse phenomena.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vallejos, Rosa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Colección:Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; 13.
Temas:
Indians of South America > Amazon River Region > Languages.
Cocama language > Grammar.
Kokama (Langue) > Grammaire.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Native American Languages.
Indians of South America > Languages
Amazon River Region
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Phonetics and Phonology
  • 3. Morpheme Types
  • 4. Nouns
  • 5. Noun Phrase
  • 6. Verbs
  • 7. Stative Verbs and Adverbial Words
  • 8. Clause Structure
  • 9. Postpositional Phrases
  • 10. Non-verbal Predication
  • 11. Complex Predicates
  • 12. Sentence Types
  • 13. Clause Combining: Events as Arguments and Modifiers
  • 14. Clause Linking
  • 15. Co-Ranking Constructions
  • 16. Topics in the Syntax-Discourse Interface
  • 17. Closing Remarks.

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