New book: Proto-Taranoan

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A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan:
Phonology and Morphology

SERGIO MEIRA
MPI Nijmegen

Comparative and classificatory studies of Cariban languages, despite
their long history (starting with Gilij in 1782), have been few and
unsatisfactory, mainly due to the lack of necessary documentation of the
languages in question. Based on a large amount of new descriptive data,
as well as on published sources, the present work attempts to
demonstrate the closer genetic relationship between a subgroup of three
Cariban languages, Akuriys, Tiriys and Karihona, the last two of which
were considered to belong to very distant branches of the family in a
still widely cited classification (Durbin 1977). This demonstration
takes the form of a reconstruction of the main aspects of the segmental
phonology and inflectional morphology (person, number, evidentiality,
tense/aspect/mood) of the proto-language, which the author proposes to
call Proto-Taranoan. A preliminary etymological dictionary, as well as
some remarks on the history of the speakers, is also included.

ISBN 3 89586 534 6.
LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics 30.
Ca. 300 pp. Ca. USD 80 / DM 138 / # 48.


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