A grammar of Tariana, from northwest Amazonia /
A comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from the northwest Amazonian jungle.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés South American Indian |
Publicado: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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Colección: | Cambridge grammatical descriptions.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The language and its speakers
- 2. Phonology
- 3. Word classes
- 4. Nominal morphology and noun structure
- 5. Noun classes and classifiers
- 6. Possession
- 7. Case marking and grammatical relations
- 8. Number
- 9. Further nominal categories
- 10. Derivation and compounding
- 11. Closed word classes
- 12. Verb classes and predicate structure
- 13. Valency changing and argument rearranging mechanisms
- 14. Tense and evidentiality
- 15. Aspect, Aktionsart and degree
- 16. Mood and modality
- 17. Negation
- 18. Serial verb constructions and verb compounding
- 19. Complex predicates
- 20. Participles and nominalisations
- 21. Clause types and other syntactic issues.