Chapter 1. Nonverbal predication in Amazonia

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Chapter 1. Nonverbal predication in Amazonia 1
4. Part I. Overviews of nonverbal predication in individual languages
5. Chapter 2. Nonverbal predication and the nonverbal clause type of Mojeño Trinitario 53
6. Chapter 3. Nonverbal predication in Paresi-Haliti 85
7. Chapter 4. Nonverbal predication in Kari’nja (Cariban, Suriname) 103
8. Chapter 5. Nonverbal predicates and copula constructions in Aguaruna (Chicham) 135
9. Chapter 6. To hi or not to hi ? 163
10. Chapter 7. Between verb and noun 193
11. Chapter 8. Nonverbal predication in Movima 217
12. Chapter 9. Nonverbal predication in Ninam (northern Brazil) 245
13. Part II. Exploring specific subtypes of nonverbal predicates
14. Chapter 10. Locative, existential and possessive predication in the Chaco 263
15. Chapter 11. Possessive semantic relations and construction types in Kukama-Kukamiria 295
16. Part III. Diachronic pathways to and from nonverbal predication
17. Chapter 12. Constructions with has(a) in Wampis 317
18. Chapter 13. Evidence for the development of action nominals in Awetí towards ergatively-marked predicates 339
19. Chapter 14. Reconstructing the copulas and nonverbal predicate constructions in Cariban 365
20. Index 403