TY - BOOK ID - 85712714 TI - A Grammar of Kulina PY - 2014 SN - 3110395371 3110341913 3110339684 3110341921 PB - De Gruyter DB - UniCat KW - Culina language KW - Corina language KW - Culinha language KW - Culino language KW - Cuniba language KW - Curiana language KW - Curina language KW - Kulina language KW - Kulino language KW - Madiha language KW - Madija language KW - Arawakan languages KW - Grammar. KW - Amazonian Languages. KW - Arawan. KW - Kulina. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85712714 AB - 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. ER -