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South American Indian languages --- Grammar --- Sikuani --- Syntaxe --- Syntaxis

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Takelma Texts and Grammar

North and Central American indian languages --- Takelma Indians. --- Takelma language --- Texts. --- Takelma Indians --- Takilma language --- Penutian languages --- Takilman Indians --- Indians of North America --- Texts --- Takelma language - Texts.

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This book combines a fieldwork-based language-specific analysis with a typological investigation. It offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the form and semantics of experiencer constructions in Yucatec, the Mayan language of the Yucatecan peninsula in Mexico. Since the linguistic expression of experience is not restricted to a specific grammatical area the study touches a great variety of grammatical fields in the language such as argument structure, grammatical relations, possessive constructions, subordinate constructions, etc. The empirical analysis of the Yucatec data is preceded by a thorough examination of the functional domain and the cross-linguistic coding of experience which until now could not be found in the literature. This study will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of typology and Native American linguistics, and especially to those interested in argument structure and the syntax-semantics interface.

North and Central American indian languages --- Grammar --- Maya language --- Language and languages. --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Grammar.

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Wishram Texts and Ethnography

North and Central American indian languages --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Wishram (Indiens) --- Wishram (Langue) --- Folklore. --- Textes. --- Tlakluit language - Texts. --- Tlakluit Indians - Legends. --- Indians of North America --- Linguistics. --- Languages. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages

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This volume presents a typological/theoretical introduction plus eight papers about ergative alignment in 16 Amazonian languages. All are written by linguists with years of fieldwork and comparative experience in the region, all describe details of the synchronic systems, and several also provide diachronic insight into the evolution of these systems. The five papers in Part I focus on languages from four larger families with ergative patterns primarily in morphology. The typological contribution is in detailed consideration of unusual splits, changes in ergative patterns, and parallels between ergative main clauses and nominalizations. The three papers in Part II discuss genetically isolated languages. Two present dominant ergative patterns in both morphology and syntax, the other a syntactic inverse system that is predominantly ergative in discourse. In each, the authors demonstrate that identification of traditional grammatical relations is problematic. These data will figure in all future typological and theoretical debates about grammatical relations.

South American Indian languages --- Grammar --- Amazon Valey --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Indians of South America --- Ergative constructions. --- Languages. --- Amazon Valley --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Ergative (Linguistics) --- Ethnology --- Ergative case --- Case --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology