TY - BOOK ID - 78494845 TI - A grammar of Kukama-Kukamiria PY - 2016 SN - 9004314520 9789004314528 9789004314511 9004314512 PB - Leiden Boston DB - UniCat KW - Cocama language KW - Cocama Cocamilla language KW - Huallaga language KW - Kokama language KW - Kokama-Kokamilya language KW - Kukama-Kukamiria language KW - Pampadeque language KW - Pandequebo language KW - Ucayale language KW - Ucayali language KW - Xibitaoan language KW - Tupi-Guarani languages KW - Grammar. KW - Grammar KW - Amerindian languages UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78494845 AB - 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 discourse phenomena. Salient typological features include a robust morphological distinction between male and female speech; the expression of TAM categories via fixed clitics; the encoding of three-place predicates by means of transitive clauses; six directive constructions that distinguish degrees of pragmatic force; and multiple types of purpose clauses that differ in terms of coreference control. This grammar also shows the TupĂ-Guarani origin of an important number of Kukama-Kukamiria grammatical structures and advances comparative studies in the region. ER -