A Grammar of Mosetén
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Jeanette Sakel
About this book
Mosetén belongs to the small, unclassified language family Mosetenan and is spoken by roughly 800 people in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes and the adjoining lowland region. This book provides a grammatical description of Mosetén in the form of a descriptive reference grammar. It is based on the author's extensive fieldwork in Bolivia and is intended to be comprehensive and aimed at linguists from all backgrounds. Belonging to an unclassified language family, Mosetén is of special interest to typologists, historical linguists, contact linguists and South Americanists.
The grammar is divided into a chapter on phonology (2.) and six chapters on the morphology: morphological processes (3.) the nominal system (4.), pronouns and reference (5.), adjectives and adverbs (6.), quantification (7.) and the verbal system (8.). These chapters are followed by voice (9.), negation (10.) and modality and discourse markers (11.). Finally, there are two syntactically oriented chapters on clause types (12.) and clause combinations (13.). In the appendix, three types of texts, a list of morphemes, a list of references and further bibliographical notes are added. Furthermore, there is an index.
This grammar is the first accessible and comprehensive description of a Mosetenan language.
Author / Editor information
Jeanette Sakel is Research Associate at the Department of Linguistics, University Manchester, UK.
Reviews
"[...] not only a high-quality language description that surely will be actively used by typologists of all sorts, but also an invaluable point of reference for comparative studies of South American languages."
Olesya Khanina in: Linguist List 16.1245
Topics
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Chapter 1. Introduction
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Chapter 2. Phonology
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Chapter 3. Morphological processes
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Chapter 4. The nominal system
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Chapter 5. Pronouns and reference
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Chapter 6. Adjectives and adverbs
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Chapter 7. Quantification
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Chapter 8. The verbal system. 8.1. Verbal inflection
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Chapter 8. The verbal system. 8.2. Morphophonological characteristics of verbal stems
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Chapter 8. The verbal system. 8.3. Verbal stem markers
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Chapter 8. The verbal system. 8.4. Incorporation markers
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Chapter 8. The verbal system. 8.5. Aspect
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Chapter 8. The verbal system. 8.6. Associated motion
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Chapter 9. Voice
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Chapter 10. Negation
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Chapter 11. Modality and discourse markers
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Chapter 12. Clause types
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Chapter 13. Clause combinations
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Appendix I. Texts
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Appendix II. Word order in written texts
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Appendix III. List of grammatical markers
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Notes
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References
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Further materials about Mosetén and Chimane
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Index
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