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A Grammar of Cavineña
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Antoine Guillaume
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2008
About this book
This book is a detailed high-quality descriptive grammar of the endangered Cavineña language (less than 1200 speakers), spoken in the Amazonian rainforest of Lowland Bolivia, an area where the indigenous languages are virtually unknown. Cavineña belongs to the Tacanan family, comprising five languages, none of which has been the subject of an adequate descriptive grammar. The grammar is based mostly on the extensive fieldwork conducted by the author in traditional Cavineña communities. Cast in the functional-typological framework, and based on natural discourse data, the grammar presents a detailed and copiously exemplified account of most aspects of the language, building up from basic levels (phonetic and phonological) to higher levels (morphological and syntactic), and from brief descriptions of each level to a more comprehensive description of the same level in specific chapters. The language contains a number of unusual features that will be of interest to typologist linguists, such as an unusual pitch accent system, a morpho-phonological rule that deletes case markers, an intricate predicate structure, a system of verbal suffixes coding associated motion, a specific causative of involvement marker, a peculiar prefix e- that attaches to nouns coding body parts and a complex system of second position clitic pronouns. The grammar will also be of interest to historical-comparative linguists, as for the first time one has sufficiently detailed grammatical information to make possible a reliable comparison with other languages with which Tacanan languages might be related, in particular the Panoan family, and to serve as input into hypotheses regarding the population history of this part of South America.
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Antoine Guillaume, CNRS & Université Lumière Lyon 2, France.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Abbreviations
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Tables and figures
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Plates
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Chapter 1. The language and its speakers
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Chapter 2. Phonology
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Chapter 3. Grammatical vs. phonological word
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Chapter 4. Grammatical overview
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Chapter 5. Predicate structure — an overview
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Chapter 6. Predicate structure — inflectional morphology
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Chapter 7. Predicate structure — Aktionsart suffixes
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Chapter 8. Predicate structure — valency-changing mechanisms
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Chapter 9. Predicate structure — postural and directional suffixes
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Chapter 10. Predicate structure — auxiliary-triggering processes
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Chapter 11. Predicative adjectives
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Chapter 12. Noun phrase structure — an overview
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Chapter 13. Noun phrase structure — modifiers
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Chapter 14. Postpositions
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Chapter 15. Pronouns and demonstratives
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Chapter 16. Particles — independent, first position and second position particles
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Chapter 17. Particles — phrasal particles
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Chapter 18. Non-finite adverbial clauses
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Chapter 19. Finite adverbial clauses
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Chapter 20. Relative clauses
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Backmatter
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eBook published on:
October 31, 2008
eBook ISBN:
9783110211771
Hardcover published on:
July 15, 2008
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110188424
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
34
Main content:
900
Tables:
2
Other:
5 photos. 2 maps
Audience(s) for this book
Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students of Linguistics from all Backgrounds and Anthropologists interested in South American Languages; Typologists, Historical-Comparative Linguists
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