30.4622, Books: A Grammar of Araona: Dixon (ed.), Emkow

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Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 22:37:49
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A Grammar of Araona: Dixon (ed.), Emkow

 


Title: A Grammar of Araona 
Series Title: Outstanding grammars from Australia 19  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: lincom-shop.eu/OGFAUS-19-Grammar-of-Araona/en 


Author: Carola Emkow
Editor: RMW Dixon

Hardback: ISBN:  9783862889969 Pages: 620 Price: Europe EURO 184.00


Abstract:

This book is a comprehensive grammar of the language of the Araona, a Tacana
language spoken in lowland Bolivia (Amazonia) by about 140 people. Their
history, traditional beliefs, and current situation is presented in the
introductory chapter followed by an typological introduction to the language.

Araona is an agglutinative, predominantly suffixing, and mildly polysynthetic
language. Its phonology is characterized by a relatively simple phoneme
inventory with complicated rules for stress assignment. Nouns and pronouns
inflect for number (singular, dual and plural) and case. Relational nouns can
indicate part-whole relationships and also location. Verbal categories include
tense, mood, modality, evidentiality, aspect, directionals and posturals.
Verbal categories can be divided into core verbal and non-core verbal
categories.

The grammar covers most aspects of the language, with special attention to its
typologically unusual features, such as case system, simple and complex
predicates involving auxiliaries and transitivity agreement, and the system of
personal pronouns and demonstratives based on clan division. A vocabulary list
as well as four illustrative texts, supplied with morpheme-per-morpheme gloss,
and free translations, are given in the appendix.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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