Author : Daniel Valle Arevalo
Publisher :
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 16,16 MB
Release : 2017
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ISBN :
This dissertation provides a synchronic basic grammatical description of the San Alejandro dialect of the Kakataibo language and a more in-depth study of the expression of information structure, specifically, focus and topic. Kakataibo is spoken by approximately 1500 people in the Peruvian central Amazon region. This work represents the first attempt to analyze the expression of information structure in a Panoan language.
Author : Roberto Zariquiey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110765810
Kashibo-Kakataibo is the westernmost Panoan language and, therefore, the one closest to the Andes Mountains. In terms of its typological profile, Kashibo-Kakataibo is a (mainly) postpositional and agglutinating language with a highly synthetic verbal morphology, which includes a highly complex tense system with several markers, some of which also express aspectual meanings. Kashibo-Kakataibo presents a mixed prosodic system, which combines stress and tone features. In addition, like with other Pano languages, Kashibo-Kakataibo exhibits a number of transitivity-related issues of high typological interest. First of all, the language shows an extremely complex system of grammatical relations, which includes tripatite, ergative, accusative, neutral and one horizontal alignment types. In addition, the language exhibits a fascinating interaction between syntactic case and pragmatic function. There are two fixed syntactic classes of verbs: transitive and intransitive. A verb root/base can only change its class by means of explicit morphological derivation (with only 4 ambitransitive verbs in the whole language). As in other Panoan languages, the transitivity class of the main verb is morphologically indicated throughout the clause, by means of complex systems of agreement and harmony (some of which are totally new even from a Panoan perspective)
Author : Roberto Zariquiey Biondi
Publisher :
Page : 1714 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Panoan languages
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Author : Roberto Zariquiey
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902726273X
Recent scholarship has confirmed earlier observations that nominalization plays a crucial role in the formation of complex constructions in the world’s languages. Grammatical nominalizations are one of the most salient and widespread features of languages of the Americas, yet they have not been approached as foundational grammatical structures for constructions such as relative clauses and complement clauses. This is due to an imbalance in past scholarship, which has tended to focus on these constructions at the expense of the nominalization structures underlying them. The papers in this collection treat grammatical nominalizations in their own right, and as a starting point for the investigation of their uses in complex grammatical structures. A representative sample of Amerindian languages, with focus on South America, examines properties of grammatical nominalizations such as their multiple functions, their internal and external syntax, and their diachronic development. Among the far-reaching theoretical conclusions reached by the studies in this volume is that the various types of relative clauses recognized in the typological literature are actually no more than epiphenomena arising from the different uses of grammatical nominalizations.
Author : Roberto Zariquiey
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110416350
This is the first comprehensive grammar of Kakataibo (a Panoan language spoken in Peru). It is based upon 7 years of study of the language and a corpus of more than 40 hours of recordings. Considering that there is no such a thing as a theoretically
Author : Antoine Guillaume
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110692120
This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.
Author : Patience Epps
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110419408
This handbook provides the first broadly comprehensive, typologically-informed descriptive overview of the languages of Greater Amazonia. Organized by genealogical units, the chapters provide empirically rich descriptions of the phonology and grammar of all Amazonian families and isolates for which data and descriptions exist. Volume 1 focuses on the many isolates of the region – those languages for which no extant sisters can be identified.
Author : Carlos Gussenhoven
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0198832230
This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.
Author : Rik van Gijn
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027287090
In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly different from each other. This volume intends to provide a taste of the linguistic diversity found in South America within the area of clause subordination. The potential variety in the strategies that languages can use to encode subordinate events is enormous, yet there are clearly dominant patterns to be discerned: switch reference marking, clause chaining, nominalization, and verb serialization. The book also contributes to the continuing debate on the nature of syntactic complexity, as evidenced in subordination.
Author : Rik van Gijn
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027266778
Switch reference is a grammatical process that marks a referential relationship between arguments of two (or more) verbs. Typically it has been characterized as an inflection pattern on the verb itself, encoding identity or non-identity between subject arguments separately from traditional person or number marking. In the 50 years since William Jacobsen’s coinage of the term, switch reference has evolved from an exotic phenomenon found in a handful of lesser-known languages to a widespread feature found in geographically and linguistically unconnected parts of the world. The growing body of information on the topic raises new theoretical and empirical questions about the development, functions, and nature of switch reference, as well as the internal variation between different switch-reference systems. The contributions to this volume discuss these and other questions for a wide variety of languages from all over the world, and endevaour to demonstrate the full functional and morphosyntactic range of the phenomenon.
