A Grammar of Kakataibo
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Roberto Zariquiey
About this book
Kashibo-Kakataibo is the westernmost Panoan language and, therefore, the one closest to the Andes Mountains. In terms of its typological profile, Kashibo-Kakataibo is a (mainly) postpositional and agglutinating language with a highly synthetic verbal morphology, which includes a highly complex tense system with several markers, some of which also express aspectual meanings. Kashibo-Kakataibo presents a mixed prosodic system, which combines stress and tone features. In addition, like with other Pano languages, Kashibo-Kakataibo exhibits a number of transitivity-related issues of high typological interest. First of all, the language shows an extremely complex system of grammatical relations, which includes tripatite, ergative, accusative, neutral and one horizontal alignment types. In addition, the language exhibits a fascinating interaction between syntactic case and pragmatic function. There are two fixed syntactic classes of verbs: transitive and intransitive. A verb root/base can only change its class by means of explicit morphological derivation (with only 4 ambitransitive verbs in the whole language). As in other Panoan languages, the transitivity class of the main verb is morphologically indicated throughout the clause, by means of complex systems of agreement and harmony (some of which are totally new even from a Panoan perspective)
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Roberto Zariquiey, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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List of maps
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List of tables
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List of figures
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List of abbreviations
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1 The Kakataibo people and their language
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2 Segmental phonology
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3 Prosody
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4 Introduction to morphology
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5 Word classes
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6 Nouns
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7 Adjectives
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8 Verbs (I): Verb classes
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9 Verbs (II): Verbal morphology
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10 Adverbs
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11 Independent clauses
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12 Switch-reference constructions
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13 Reported speech and elaborative clauses
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14 Grammatical nominalizations
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15 Transitivity and grammatical relations
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16 Sentences in narratives and conversations
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Appendix 1: Selection of Kakataibo texts
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Appendix 2: Swadesh list of 200 terms for the four extant dialects of Kakatataibo with English and Spanish translations
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Appendix 3: Tessmann’s list of 237 terms for the four extant dialects of Kakatataibo with German and Spanish translations
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Appendix 4: Kakataibo textual database
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Appendix 5: Brief Kakataibo – English vocabulary
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Appendix 6: Index of Kakataibo grammatical morphemes
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Photographs
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References
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Index of subjects
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Index of persons
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