29.3471, Books: A Grammar of Kakataibo: Zariquiey

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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 17:04:11
From: Pablo Dominguez Andersen [pablo.dominguez at degruyter.com]
Subject: A Grammar of Kakataibo: Zariquiey

 


Title: A Grammar of Kakataibo 
Series Title: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/455016?format=G 


Author: Roberto Zariquiey

Hardback: ISBN:  9783110416350 Pages: 668 Price: U.S. $ 172.99


Abstract:

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).
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Cashibo-Cacataibo (cbr)

Language Family(ies): Western Panoan


Written In: English  (eng)

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