A Grammar of Hup / / Patience Epps.
This work is a reference grammar of Hup, a member of the Nadahup family (also known as Makú or Vaupés-Japura), which is spoken in the fascinatingly multilingual Vaupés region of the northwest Amazon. This detailed description and analysis is informed by a functional-typological perspective, with par...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Edition: | no CD-ROM in POD-edition |
Language: | English |
Series: | Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (983 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Hup and its speakers -- Chapter 2 Phonology -- Chapter 3 The architecture of the word: parts of -- speech and formatives -- Chapter 4 The noun and nominal morphology -- Chapter 5 The complex noun: compounding, -- possession, and noun classification -- Chapter 6 The noun phrase: modification and -- definiteness -- Chapter 7 Nominal discourse-marking -- morphology -- Chapter 8 The verb word -- Chapter 9 The compound verb -- Chapter 10 Adjectives and adverbial -- expressions -- Chapter 11 Adjusting valency -- Chapter 12 Aspect -- Chapter 13 Tense and related forms -- Chapter 14 Modality and evidentiality -- Chapter 15 Sentence-level affect marking -- Chapter 16 Negation -- Chapter 17 Simple clauses -- Chapter 18 Clause combining -- Backmatter |
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Summary: | This work is a reference grammar of Hup, a member of the Nadahup family (also known as Makú or Vaupés-Japura), which is spoken in the fascinatingly multilingual Vaupés region of the northwest Amazon. This detailed description and analysis is informed by a functional-typological perspective, with particular reference to areal contact and grammaticalization. The grammar begins with an introduction to the cultural and linguistic background of Hup speakers, gives an overview of the phonology, and follows this with chapters on morphosyntax (nominal morphology, verbs and verb compounding, tense, aspect, modality, evidentiality, etc.); it concludes with discussions of negation, the simple clause, and clause combining. A number of features of Hup grammar are typologically significant, such as its strategy of inversion in question formation, its system of Differential Object Marking, and its treatment of possession. Hup also exhibits several highly unusual paths of grammaticalization, such as the development of a verbal future suffix from the noun‘stick, tree’. The book also includes a selection of texts and a CD-ROM with audio files. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110199079 9783110238570 9783110238457 9783110636970 9783110742961 9783110212129 9783110212136 9783110209457 |
ISSN: | 0933-7636 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110199079 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Patience Epps. |