A grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia

著者

• Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡. (Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna)

書誌事項

A grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

（Cambridge grammatical descriptions）

Cambridge University Press, 2003

• : hbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [682]-689) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonian jungle. Its speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as a result most people are fluent in five or six languages. Because of this rampant multilingualism, Tariana combines a number of features inherited from the protolanguage with properties diffused from neighbouring but unrelated Tucanoan languages. Typologically unusual features of the language include: an array of classifiers independent of genders, complex serial verbs, case marking depending on the topicality of a noun, and double marking of case and of number. Tariana has obligatory evidentiality: every sentence contains a special element indicating whether the information was seen, heard, or inferred by the speaker, or whether the speaker acquired it from somebody else. This grammar will be a valuable source-book for linguists and others interested in natural languages.

目次

• List of tables, schemes and diagrams
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Organisation and cross-referencing
• List of abbreviations
• Map
• 1. The language and its speakers
• 2. Phonology
• 3. Word classes
• 4. Nominal morphology and noun structure
• 5. Noun classes and classifiers
• 6. Possession
• 7. Case marking and grammatical relations
• 8. Number
• 9. Further nominal categories
• 10. Derivation and compounding
• 11. Closed word classes
• 12. Verb classes and predicate structure
• 13. Valency changing and argument rearranging mechanisms
• 14. Tense and evidentiality
• 15. Aspect, Aktionsart and degree
• 16. Mood and modality
• 17. Negation
• 18. Serial verb constructions and verb compounding
• 19. Complex predicates
• 20. Participles and nominalisations
• 21. Clause types and other syntactic issues
• 22. Subordinate clauses and clause linking
• 23. Relative clauses
• 24. Complement clauses
• 25. Discourse organisation
• 26. Issues in etymology and semantics
• Appendix
• Texts
• Vocabulary
• References
• Index.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA64417333
• ISBN:
  • 0521826640
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: engsai
• 出版地: Cambridge
• ページ数/冊数: xxiv, 705 p.
• 大きさ: 26 cm
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Tariana language -- Grammar
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA61095514