A Grammar of Mapuche /

A Grammar of Mapuche / / Ineke Smeets.

Mapuche is the language of the Mapuche (or Araucanians), the native inhabitants of central Chile. The Mapuche language, also called Mapudungu, is spoken by about 400,000 people in Chile and 40,000 in Argentina. The Mapuche people, estimated at about one million, constitute the majority of the Chilea...

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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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Smeets, Ineke,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] , 41
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Physical Description:1 online resource (587 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations and Conventions
  • Part I. INTRODUCTION
  • Map 1: Topographic map of central Chile
  • 1. The Mapuche people
  • 2. The Mapuche language
  • 3. This grammar
  • Part II. PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOPHONOLOGY
  • 4. Phonemes
  • 5. Phonemic structure of roots, suffixes and words
  • 6. Distribution of phonemes
  • 7. Stress
  • 8. Morphophonology
  • 9. Loans
  • Part III. MORPHOLOGY AND MORPHOSYNTAX OF THE NOUN
  • 10. Nouns
  • 11. Adjectives
  • 12. Adverbs
  • 13. Numerals
  • 14. Demonstrative and anaphoric pronouns
  • 15. Personal pronouns
  • 16. Possessive pronouns
  • 17. Interrogative pronouns
  • 18. Suffixation
  • 19. Compounding
  • 20. Reduplication
  • 21. Verbalization
  • Part IV. NOUN PHRASES AND NOMINAL SENTENCES
  • 22. Simple noun phrase
  • 23. Complex noun phrase
  • 24. Nominal sentences
  • Part V. MORPHOLOGY AND MORPHOSYNTAX OF THE VERB
  • 25. Introduction
  • 26. Slots
  • 27. Unnumbered suffixes
  • 28. Derivational nominalizers
  • 29. Compounding
  • 30. Deictic verbs
  • 31. Defective verbs
  • Part VI. PARTICLES
  • 32. Particles
  • Part VII. FURTHER NOTES ON SYNTAX
  • 33. Introduction
  • 34. Word order
  • 35. Coordination and subordination
  • Appendix. PARADIGMS
  • Part VIII. TEXTS
  • Part IX. DICTIONARY MAPUCHE - ENGLISH
  • References
  • Contents of the CD

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