Re: [etnolinguistica] Gramática da língua tariana : Cambridge University Press

Sun Sep 7 02:01:58 UTC 2003

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
A Grammar of Tariana, from northwest Amazonia.
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2003
705+xxiv pp. Hardback: ISBN: 0521826640; Price: GBP 85, USD $115

This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak 
language from a remote region in northwest Amazonia. The language is spoken 
in the multilingual area of the Vaupés River Basin. This area is renowned 
for its language group exogamy and institutionalized multilingualism. 
Language is the badge of identity for each group, and people who speak the 
same language do not marry each other. As a result 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 Tariana 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 morpheme indicating whether the information was seen, 
heard, or inferred by the speaker, or whether the speaker acquired it from 
somebody else. The volume can be used as a source-book for grammarians, 
typologists and scholars of language contact. It poses analytic problems 
for linguists who work in terms of formal theories.

Contents:

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; 0. 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: The main features of the Tariana
dialects; Texts; Vocabulary; References; Index.
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
A Grammar of Tariana, from northwest Amazonia.
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2003
705+xxiv pp. Hardback: ISBN: 0521826640; Price: GBP 85, USD $115

This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak 
language from a remote region in northwest Amazonia. The language is spoken 
in the multilingual area of the Vaupés River Basin. This area is renowned 
for its language group exogamy and institutionalized multilingualism. 
Language is the badge of identity for each group, and people who speak the 
same language do not marry each other. As a result 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 Tariana 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 morpheme indicating whether the information was seen, 
heard, or inferred by the speaker, or whether the speaker acquired it from 
somebody else. The volume can be used as a source-book for grammarians, 
typologists and scholars of language contact. It poses analytic problems 
for linguists who work in terms of formal theories.

Contents:

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; 0. 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: The main features of the Tariana
dialects; Texts; Vocabulary; References; Index.

Professor Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, FAHA
Associate Director
Research Centre for Linguistic Typology
Institute for Advanced Study
La Trobe University
Bundoora, Vic
Australia 3086

e-mail a.aikhenvald at latrobe.edu.au

phone:  61-(0)3-9479-6402 Uni
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fax             61-(0)3-9467-3053

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