Title A grammar of Kukama-Kukamiria : a language from the Amazon / by Rosa Vallejos

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 755 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps Series Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; volume 13 Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; 13. Contents 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 Summary This book offers a comprehensive description of Kukama-Kukamiria, spoken by about 1000 elders in the Peruvian Amazon. This grammar comes from fifteen years of fieldwork; it is organized in seventeen chapters dealing with phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse phenomena Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Languages Cocama language -- Grammar FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Native American Languages. Indians of South America -- Languages Amazon River Region Form Electronic book ISBN 9789004314528 9004314520

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