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ISBN: 3110395371 3110341913 3110339684 3110341921 Year: 2014 Publisher: De Gruyter
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This book is a reference grammar of Kulina, an Amazonian language spoken in Brazil and Peru. The dialect described by the author is spoken on the upper Purus River in the Brazilian state of Acre. Kulina belongs to the Arawan language family. It is predominantly head-marking and has a complex verbal morphology which is largely agglutinating with some instances of fusion. The language has two noun classes and two genders. The gender agreement of transitive verbs with their arguments is in part governed by intricate grammatical rules and in part pragmatically driven. There are three types of possession, alienable, inalienable, and kinship. The latter category only applies to some kinship nouns, while others are alienably possessed. Kulina has aspirated and unaspirated obstruents, but different aspirated obstruents do not co-occur in one morpheme due to Grassmann's law, a dissimilation process known from Sanskrit and Ancient Greek. The book contains two Kulina texts and a chapter on the lexicon, which discusses colour terms, generic nouns for plants and animals, pet vocatives, idioms, and the origin of loan words.
Culina language --- Corina language --- Culinha language --- Culino language --- Cuniba language --- Curiana language --- Curina language --- Kulina language --- Kulino language --- Madiha language --- Madija language --- Arawakan languages --- Grammar. --- Amazonian Languages. --- Arawan. --- Kulina.
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ISBN: 9004257020 9789004257023 9789004257016 9004257012 Year: 2014 Publisher: Leiden Boston
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Negation in Arawak Languages presents detailed descriptions of negation constructions in nine Arawak languages (Apurinã, Garifuna, Kurripako, Lokono, Mojeño Trinitario, Nanti, Paresi, Tariana, and Wauja), as well as an overview of negation in this major language family. Functional-typological in orientation, each descriptive chapter in the volume is based on fieldwork by authors in the communities in which the languages are spoken. Chapters describe standard negation, prohibitives, existential negation, negative indefinites, and free negation, as well as language-specific negation phenomena such as morphological privatives, the interaction of negation with verbal inflectional categories, and negation in clause-linking constructions. Informed by typological approaches to negation, this volume will be of interest to specialists in Arawak languages, typologists, historical linguists, and theoretical linguists.
Arawakan languages --- Endangered languages. --- Language attrition. --- Language loss --- Bilingualism --- Sociolinguistics --- At-risk languages --- Disappearing languages --- Dying languages --- Fading languages --- Nearly extinct languages --- Threatened languages --- Vanishing languages --- Language and languages --- Language obsolescence --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of South America --- Indians of the West Indies --- Grammar. --- Negatives. --- Languages --- Maipuran languages --- Maipure languages
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