| Description |
1 online resource (330 pages) |
| Series |
Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ; v. 66 |
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Mouton grammar library ; 66.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Abbreviations, symbols and conventions; Abbreviations; Symbols; Conventions; Summary; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Population and geographic location; 1.2 The name Kulina; 1.3 The Alto Rio Purus; 1.4 The Kulina language and the Arawan language family; 1.5 Features of the language; 1.5.1 Phonology; 1.5.2 Word classes; 1.5.3 Gender, noun class and possession; 1.5.4 Morphology; 1.5.5 Syntax; 1.6 Dialect variation; 1.6.1 Purus and Envira; 1.6.2 Juruá; 1.6.3 Jutaí; 1.7 Previous work on the Kulina language and its speakers; 1.7.1 General grammatical descriptions |
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1.7.2 Specific grammatical and phonological topics1.7.3 Dictionaries and wordlists; 1.7.4 Historical linguistics and language contact; 1.7.5 Pan-Amazonian forms; 1.7.6 Texts; 1.7.7 Anthropological literature; 1.8 Materials for the present study; 1.8.1 Kulina; 1.8.2 Other languages; 1.9 Spelling; 2 Phonetics and phonology; 2.1 Vowels; 2.1.1 Inventory and realisations; 2.1.2 Long vowels; 2.1.3 Diphthongs; 2.2 Consonants; 2.2.1 Inventory and realisations; 2.2.2 Phoneme /s/; 2.2.3 Phoneme /r/; 2.2.4 Glottal stop; 2.3 Syllables; 2.4 Stress; 2.5 /w/ and /o/; 2.6 Morphophonemic processes |
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2.6.1 Fusion2.6.2 Assimilation; 2.6.3 Apophony; 2.6.4 Elision; 2.6.5 Lenition of /k/; 2.6.6 Combination of morphophonemic processes; 2.7 Phonotactics of obstruents; 2.8 Phonology of word classes; 2.9 Phonology of 'yes'; 2.10 Phonologically exceptional words; 2.10.1 Onomatopoeia; 2.10.2 Loans; 3 Nouns; 3.1 Free nouns; 3.1.1 Non-singular marking; 3.1.2 Common nouns; 3.1.3 Proper nouns; 3.2 Kinship nouns; 3.2.1 Possession of grammatical kinship nouns; 3.2.2 Lexical forms; 3.2.3 'Son' and 'daughter' in the Juruá dialect; 3.3 Inalienably possessed nouns; 3.3.1 Semantics |
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3.3.2 Gender marking and derivation3.4 Change of lexical subcategory; 3.5 Gender and noun class; 3.5.1 Gender; 3.5.2 Ka-class; 3.5.3 Comparison of gender and noun class; 3.6 Complex nouns; 3.6.1 Adjectives as modifiers; 3.6.2 Stative verbs as modifiers; 3.6.3 Modifying possessed noun plus stative verb; 3.6.4 Idiosyncratic modifiers; 4 Dynamic verbs; 4.1 Verbal morphology and the structure of the predicate; 4.1.1 Inflection types; 4.1.2 Affixation; 4.1.3 Secondary verb; 4.2 Morphology of main verbs and auxiliaries; 4.2.1 Agreement markers |
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4.2.2 Tense, mood, modality, evidentiality (slots N and O)4.2.3 Directional affixes; 4.2.4 Aktionsart; 4.2.5 Negation (slot L); 4.2.6 Valency change; 4.3 Secondary verb hika-; 4.4 Interrogative; 4.5 Suppletive verbs; 4.6 Infinitive; 4.7 Participle; 4.8 Quantifying verbs; 5 Stative verbs; 5.1 Stative verbs with auxiliary na-; 5.1.1 Plural marking; 5.1.2 Dual marking; 5.1.3 Intensifier bote; 5.2 Inflecting stative verbs; 5.2.1 Colour verbs; 5.2.2 Bika 'good'; 5.3 Stative verbs with auxiliary hira-; 5.3.1 Plural marking; 5.3.2 Dual marking; 5.3.3 Intensifier bote |
| Summary |
Amazonia is a linguistically highly diverse region with numerous underdocumented, often seriously endangered languages. This work is a reference grammar of an Amazonian language spoken in the rainforests of Brazil and Peru. The book provides a comprehensive insight into the grammatical structure of Kulina, which will be of great value to linguistic typologists and anybody interested in Indigenous languages of South America |
| Analysis |
Amazonian Languages |
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Arawan |
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Kulina |
| Notes |
5.4 Attributive use of stative verbs |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-304) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Culina language -- Grammar
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
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Culina language
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Grammatik
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Madihá
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110341911 |
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3110341913 |
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9783110395372 |
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3110395371 |
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