28.3777, Books: A Descriptive Grammar of Kakua: Bolanos

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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:52:22
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: A Descriptive Grammar of Kakua: Bolanos

 


Title: A Descriptive Grammar of Kakua 
Subtitle: a language of Northwest Amazonia 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/a-grammar-of-kakua 


Author: Katherine Bolanos

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932151 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

This book is a linguistic description of Kakua, a language spoken in the
linguistic area of the Vaupés, in Northwest Amazonia, eastern Colombia. The
language is a member of the small Kakua-Nɨkak language family. Its speakers
live in inland forest settlements. Two main settlements are home to most of
Kakua’s approximately 250 speakers.

Kakua (~kak-~wa, person-pl ‘people’) is the self-denomination used by the
Kakua people to refer to themselves when speaking with other non-Kakua people.
Their native autonym is Bára /bâda/ [bâɾa].

The Kakua people are located in a well-known multilingual area: the Vaupés.
Kakua shares many fascinating linguistic features with other Vapués languages.
These include a complex evidentiality system, an abundance of TAME marking, a
system for noun classification, verb serialization, and differential object
marking, among others. Kakua people also share many cultural traits with their
areal neighbors, such as mythological and folk stories and cosmological
deities. However, other linguistic features and cultural traits are unlike
those found in many of Kakua’s neighboring languages; for example, only a
handful of languages in the area, Kakua being one of these, are reported to
have closed syllables and phonetic postnasalization of voiced obstruents in
coda position. The mythological origin of the Kakua people, unlike their
Eastern Tukanoan neighbors, situates them in the depths of a sacred waterfall
somewhere in the Aiarí River in the Alto Rio Negro Region of Northwest
Amazonia.

This grammar not only consists of a synchronic description of the language,
but it also explores possible diachronic and contact-induced change. In
particular, it offers scenarios that might explain the reasons why Kakua is in
many aspects similar to genetically unrelated neighboring languages, while
divergent in others.

This grammar is based on data collected by the author during many visits to
Kakua villages starting in 2009.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Cacua (cbv)


Written In: English  (eng)

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