17.3365, Books: Syntax: Aikhenvald

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Date: 12-Nov-2006
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia: Aikhenvald 

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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:50:30
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia: Aikhenvald 

Title: A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia 
Series Title: Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org

Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Paperback: ISBN: 0521028868 Pages: 729 Price: U.K. £ 40.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521028868 Pages: 729 Price: U.S. $ 70.00

Abstract:

This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak
language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonian jungle. Its
speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as
a result most people are fluent in five or six languages. Because 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 the
language 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 element indicating whether the
information was seen, heard, or inferred by the speaker, or whether the
speaker acquired it from somebody else. This grammar will be a valuable
source-book for linguists and others interested in natural languages. 

List of tables, schemes and diagrams; 
Preface; 
Acknowledgements; 
Organisation and cross-referencing; 
List of abbreviations; 
Map; 
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; 
10. 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; 
Texts; 
Vocabulary; 
References; 
Index. 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): Tariano (tae)

Written In: English  (eng)

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