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] , 43
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Physical Description:1 online resource (983 p.)
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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