A grammar of Kukama-Kukamiria : : a language from the Amazon / / by Rosa Vallejos.
This book offers a comprehensive description of Kukama-Kukamiria, spoken by about 1000 elders in the Peruvian Amazon. The empirical basis for the grammar is fifteen years of fieldwork, including text data from 36 fluent speakers. Seventeen chapters deal with phonology, morphology, syntax and discour...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Volume 13 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ;
Volume 13. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (773 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Phonetics and Phonology
- 3 Morpheme Types
- 4 Nouns
- 5 Noun Phrase
- 6 Verbs
- 7 Stative Verbs and Adverbial Words
- 8 Clause Structure
- 9 Postpositional Phrases
- 10 Non-verbal Predication
- 11 Complex Predicates
- 12 Sentence Types
- 13 Clause Combining: Events as Arguments and Modifiers
- 14 Clause Linking
- 15 Co-Ranking Constructions
- 16 Topics in the Syntax-Discourse Interface
- 17 Closing Remarks
- Appendix A: Language Consultants
- Appendix B: Samples of Texts
- References
- Index.