A Grammar Of Kakataibo

Author : Roberto Zariquiey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110765810
Total Pages : 698 pages
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Download or read book A Grammar of Kakataibo written by Roberto Zariquiey and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-09-10 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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)

Author : Roberto Zariquiey Biondi
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Total Pages : 1714 pages
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Download or read book A Grammar of Kashibo-kakataibo written by Roberto Zariquiey Biondi and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 1714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Valle Arevalo
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Total Pages : 1062 pages
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Download or read book Grammar and Information Structure of Kakataibo written by Daniel Valle Arevalo and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation provides a synchronic basic grammatical description of the San Alejandro dialect of the Kakataibo language and a more in-depth study of the expression of information structure, specifically, focus and topic. Kakataibo is spoken by approximately 1500 people in the Peruvian central Amazon region. This work represents the first attempt to analyze the expression of information structure in a Panoan language.

Author : Paolo Acquaviva
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110619547
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Number in the World's Languages written by Paolo Acquaviva and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strong development in research on grammatical number in recent years has created a need for a unified perspective. The different frameworks, the ramifications of the theoretical questions, and the diversity of phenomena across typological systems, make this a significant challenge. This book addresses the challenge with a series of in-depth analyses of number across a typologically diverse sample, unified by a common set of descriptive and analytic questions from a semantic, morphological, syntactic, and discourse perspective. Each case study is devoted to a single language, or in a few cases to a language group. They are written by specialists who can rely on first-hand data or on material of difficult access, and can place the phenomena in the context of the respective system. The studies are preceded and concluded by critical overviews which frame the discussion and identify the main results and open questions. With specialist chapters breaking new ground, this book will help number specialists relate their results to other theoretical and empirical domains, and it will provide a reliable guide to all linguists and other researchers interested in number.

Author : Katarzyna Janic
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961104115
Total Pages : 888 pages
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Download or read book Reflexive constructions in the world's languages written by Katarzyna Janic and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark publication brings together 28 papers on reflexive constructions in languages from all continents, representing very diverse language types. While reflexive constructions have been discussed in the past from a variety of angles, this is the first edited volume of its kind. All the chapters are based on original data, and they are broadly comparable through a common terminological framework. The volume opens with two introductory chapters by the editors that set the stage and lay out the main comparative concepts, and it concludes with a chapter presenting generalizations on the basis of the studies of individual languages.

Author : Roberto Zariquiey
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902726273X
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nominalization in Languages of the Americas written by Roberto Zariquiey and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent scholarship has confirmed earlier observations that nominalization plays a crucial role in the formation of complex constructions in the world’s languages. Grammatical nominalizations are one of the most salient and widespread features of languages of the Americas, yet they have not been approached as foundational grammatical structures for constructions such as relative clauses and complement clauses. This is due to an imbalance in past scholarship, which has tended to focus on these constructions at the expense of the nominalization structures underlying them. The papers in this collection treat grammatical nominalizations in their own right, and as a starting point for the investigation of their uses in complex grammatical structures. A representative sample of Amerindian languages, with focus on South America, examines properties of grammatical nominalizations such as their multiple functions, their internal and external syntax, and their diachronic development. Among the far-reaching theoretical conclusions reached by the studies in this volume is that the various types of relative clauses recognized in the typological literature are actually no more than epiphenomena arising from the different uses of grammatical nominalizations.

Author : Antoine Guillaume
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110692090
Total Pages : 930 pages
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Download or read book Associated Motion written by Antoine Guillaume and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first book-length presentation of the grammatical category of Associated Motion. It provides a framework for understanding a grammatical phenomenon which, though present in many languages, has gone unrecognized until recently. Previously known primarily from languages of Australia and South America, grammatical AM marking has now been identified in languages from most parts of the world (except Europe) and is becoming an important topic in linguistic typology. The chapters provide a thorough introduction to the subject, discussion of the relation between AM and related grammatical concepts, detailed descriptions of AM in a wide range of the world’s languages, and surveys of AM in particular language families and areas.

Author : Carlos Gussenhoven
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198832230
Total Pages : 957 pages
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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Language Prosody written by Carlos Gussenhoven and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook presents detailed accounts of current research in all aspects of language prosody, written by leading experts from different disciplines. The volume's comprehensive coverage and multidisciplinary approach will make it an invaluable resource for all researchers, students, and practitioners interested in prosody.

Author : Roberto Zariquiey
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN 13 : 9783110416350
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grammar of Kakataibo written by Roberto Zariquiey and published by De Gruyter Mouton. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive grammar of Kakataibo (a Panoan language spoken in Peru). It is based upon 7 years of study of the language and a corpus of more than 40 hours of recordings. Considering that there is no such a thing as a theoretically

Author : Simon E. Overall
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110405598
Total Pages : 652 pages
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Download or read book A Grammar of Aguaruna (Iiniá Chicham) written by Simon E. Overall and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a descriptive grammar of Aguaruna, known to its speakers as Iiniá Chicham, a Jivaroan language spoken by some 55,000 people in the northwest Peruvian Amazon. Aguaruna is typologically and historically significant because of its location in the eastern foothills of the Andes, right between the Andean and Amazonian linguistic areas. Some typologically unusual syntactic phenomena, for example in the areas of grammatical relations and case marking, make this description relevant beyond the areal context. This is the first full grammar of a Jivaroan language, covering phonology, morphology and syntax as well as addressing some issues in discourse structure. It is an important work for specialists in South American languages as well as for linguists working in more general typological fields.