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1 online resource (351 pages) |
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Routledge Library Editions: Syntax |
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Routledge Library Editions: Syntax
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Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Preface; A Note on Spelling; Introductory Note on Mojave Phonology; Sounds; Word Structure; Symbols; I Elements of Simple-Sentence Structure; 1.1 Basic sentence structure; 1.11 The simple ""tense"" markers -áıæ, -m, and -pÄ#x8D;; 1.12 Person and number markers; 1.13 Case markers; 1.14 Word order; 1.15 Demonstrative stems and affixes; 1.16 Pronouns; 1.17 Switch-reference; 1.18 Reflexives and reciprocals; 1.19 Predicate nominals; 1.2 More syntatic affixes |
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1.21 n a- 'when' /'if'1.22 -h/-Îı ""irrealis; 1.23 ""Emphatic"" -t-; 1.24 -ta:han- 'very'; 1.25 -nt- 'again', -n=; pat- 'too', -t=pat- 'same'; 1.26 -tam- 'this time'; -ahay- 'still'; 1. 27 Exclamatory -PÓ#x99;/-pa; 1. 3 Negation; 1.31 The negative suffix -mot-; 1.32 The negative verb kava:r; 1.33 The negative suffix-po?a:ve/-po?a:vÓ#x99;; 1.34 The particle va:; 1.4 Sentences with augment vowe1s; 1.41 The simple future; 1.42 Yes-no questions; 1.43 Vowel augments following tense markers; 1.44 About the vowel augments; 1.5 WH questions; 1.51 Question words and simple WH questions |
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1.52 Auxiliary verbs in WH questions1.53 The ḵ- question prefix; 1.54 Complex WH words; 1.55 Choice questions with makap 'which'; 1.6 Indefinites and disjunction; 1.61 Question-word indefinites; 1.62 Indefinites that don't use question words; 1.63 Disjunction; 1.7 Some special constructions with i 'say'; 1.71 Present and future expressions with i; 1.72 'Want' sentences with i; 1.73 Other uses of i; 1.8 Some Mojave modals; 1. 81 The modal morphemes; 1.82 p-s modals; 1.83 p-l modals; 1.84 l modals; 1.85 l with a negative; 1.86 The modal -p=ot=l=sa; 1.87 The non-modal modal suma; 1.88 -s=ma- |
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P=t=̃: another non-modal modsl?Footnotes to Chapter I; II Auxiliary Verbs, Aspect, and Conjunction; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Perfective sentences with auxiliaries; 2.21 â#x80;Øâ#x80;Øâ#x80;Ø -k â#x80;Øâ#x80;Øâ#x80;Ø -m sentences; 2.22 â#x80;Øâ#x80;Øâ#x80;Ø -p â#x80;Øâ#x80;Øâ#x80;Ø -Ä#x8D; sentences; 2.23 The structure of the auxiliary sentences; 2.24 Explaining the -m ""tense"" marker; 2.25 Sentences with deleted auxiliaries; 2.3 Perfective sentences and nominalization; 2.31 Differences between the â#x80;Øâ#x80;Øâ#x80;Ø -k â#x80;Øâ#x80;Øâ#x80;Ø-m and â#x80;Øâ#x80;Øâ#x80;Ø -Ä#x8D; constructions; 2.32 Nominalization and perfective/past/stative reference |
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2.33 The structure of Mojave perfective sentences2.4 Conjunction; 2.41 Simple sentences with conjunction; 2.42 Conjoined clauses with v-; 2.43 other morphemes related-to the nY- and v- prefixes; 2.5 The imperfective aspect in Mojave; 2.51 Imperfective sentences; 2.52 Conjunction and the imperfective aspect; Footnotes to Chapter II; III Nominalization and Embedded Clauses; 3.1 Relative clauses; 3.11 Subject relatives with k-; 3.12 Oblique relative clause; 3·13 Ambiguity in oblique relative clauses; 3.14 An alternative oblique relative construction with preposing |
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Annotation In this study the author not only comments on some of the important processes in the syntax of the Mojave language but also provides the reader with an introduction to a language whose grammar had, previous to the titles publication in 1976, never been described. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics |
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3.15 Sentences with more than one relative clause |
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Mohave language -- Syntax
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Native American Languages.
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Mohave language -- Syntax
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781315447636 |
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1315447630 |
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