A Grammar of Hup / / Patience Epps.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Epps, Patience,
• 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] , 43
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (983 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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