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A Grammar of Aguaruna (Iiniá Chicham) / Simon E. Overall.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ; 68Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (XVI, 636 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110405576
  • 9783110405590
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations and conventions -- Maps -- 1 Introduction to the Aguaruna language -- 2 Cultural and historical context -- 3 Phonology -- 4 Morphology of nouns, adjectives and pronouns -- 5 The noun phrase -- 6 The verb -- 7 Grammatical relations and transitivity -- 8 Tense, aspect and person in finite verbs -- 9 Mood and modality -- 10 Questions -- 11 Negation -- 12 Adverbial words -- 13 Subordinate clauses -- 14 Clause chaining and clause combining -- 15 Nominalization -- 16 Relative clauses -- 17 Speech reports and complement clauses -- 18 Discourse organization -- Text 1: A man is eaten by a boa -- Text 2: Extracts from Pablo’s autobiography -- Text 3: Hunting -- References -- Index
Summary: This book is a descriptive grammar of Aguaruna, known to its speakers as Iiniá Chicham, a Jivaroan language spoken by some 55,000 people in the northwest Peruvian Amazon. Aguaruna is typologically and historically significant because of its location in the eastern foothills of the Andes, right between the Andean and Amazonian linguistic areas. Some typologically unusual syntactic phenomena, for example in the areas of grammatical relations and case marking, make this description relevant beyond the areal context. This is the first full grammar of a Jivaroan language, covering phonology, morphology and syntax as well as addressing some issues in discourse structure. It is an important work for specialists in South American languages as well as for linguists working in more general typological fields.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations and conventions -- Maps -- 1 Introduction to the Aguaruna language -- 2 Cultural and historical context -- 3 Phonology -- 4 Morphology of nouns, adjectives and pronouns -- 5 The noun phrase -- 6 The verb -- 7 Grammatical relations and transitivity -- 8 Tense, aspect and person in finite verbs -- 9 Mood and modality -- 10 Questions -- 11 Negation -- 12 Adverbial words -- 13 Subordinate clauses -- 14 Clause chaining and clause combining -- 15 Nominalization -- 16 Relative clauses -- 17 Speech reports and complement clauses -- 18 Discourse organization -- Text 1: A man is eaten by a boa -- Text 2: Extracts from Pablo’s autobiography -- Text 3: Hunting -- References -- Index

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This book is a descriptive grammar of Aguaruna, known to its speakers as Iiniá Chicham, a Jivaroan language spoken by some 55,000 people in the northwest Peruvian Amazon. Aguaruna is typologically and historically significant because of its location in the eastern foothills of the Andes, right between the Andean and Amazonian linguistic areas. Some typologically unusual syntactic phenomena, for example in the areas of grammatical relations and case marking, make this description relevant beyond the areal context. This is the first full grammar of a Jivaroan language, covering phonology, morphology and syntax as well as addressing some issues in discourse structure. It is an important work for specialists in South American languages as well as for linguists working in more general typological fields.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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