A grammar of Murui (Bue) : : a Witotoan language from Northwest Amazonia / / by Katarzyna I. Wojtylak.
In A Grammar of Murui (Bue), Katarzyna Wojtylak provides the first complete description of Murui, an endangered Witotoan language, spoken by the Murui-Muina (Witoto) people from Colombia and Peru. The grammar is written from a functional and typological perspective, using natural language data gathe...
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| Superior document: | Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; Volume 15 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ;
Volume 15. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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| Summary: | In A Grammar of Murui (Bue), Katarzyna Wojtylak provides the first complete description of Murui, an endangered Witotoan language, spoken by the Murui-Muina (Witoto) people from Colombia and Peru. The grammar is written from a functional and typological perspective, using natural language data gathered during several fieldtrips to the Caquetá-Putumayo region between 2013 and 2017. The many remarkable characteristics of Murui include a complex system of classifiers, differential subject and object marking, person-marking verb morphology, evidential and epistemic marking, head-tail linkage, and a system of numerals, including the fraternal (brother-based) forms for ‘three’ and ‘four’. The grammar represents an important contribution to the study of Witotoan languages, linguistic typology of Northwest Amazonia, and language contact in the area. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004432671 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Katarzyna I. Wojtylak. |