A typological grammar of Panare, a Cariban language of Venezuela / by Thomas E. Payne, Doris L. Payne.
Panare, also known as E'ñapa Woromaipu, is a seriously endangered Cariban language spoken by about 3,500 people in Central Venezuela. A Typological Grammar of Panare by Thomas E. Payne and Doris L. Payne, is a full length linguistic grammar written from a modern functional and typological persp...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (485 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- The Language and Its Speakers
- Phonology and Morphophonology
- Nouns and Nominals
- Nominal Derivation and “Possessive” Denominalization
- Modification
- The Morphosyntax of the Verb: Organizing Principles
- Verb Stem Derivation
- Past-Perfective Aspect Constructions
- Non-Pastperfective Aspect Constructions
- Minority Class Verbs
- Noun Phrase Structure
- Adpositional Phrases and Oblique Constituents
- Copula Constructions
- Voice and Valence
- Knowing and Not Knowing: Epistemic and Negative Categories
- Commands and the Expression of Deontic Modality
- Questions and Contrastive Constructions
- Complementation
- Adverbial and medial clauses
- Relative and Modifying Clauses
- Two Short Panare Texts
- References
- Index.