35.3446, Books: A Grammar of Sikuani: Queixalós (2024)

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Date: 03-Dec-2024
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject:  A Grammar of Sikuani: Queixalós (2024)


Title: A Grammar of Sikuani
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics 92
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: LINCOM
                lincom.eu
Book URL:
https://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d/Products/%22ISBN%209783969392003%22

Author: Francesc Queixalós
Hardback: ISBN: 9783969392003 Pages: 348 Price: Europe EURO 162
Abstract:

This is a new descriptive grammar of Sikuani, a language of the
Guahibo family spoken in the mid Orinoco grasslands of Colombia and
the jungle-covered ridges of Venezuela. The book, written in English,
condenses down to one third a two-volume 950-page grammar published in
French between 1998 and 2000. The analyses sometimes diverge from the
previous version given that in the meantime the author's understanding
of languages and linguistics has in someway changed - hopefully for
better. Ten chapters cover the different topics in morphology, syntax
and the discourse manipulation of both for the sake of communicative
strategies. A final chapter deals with phonology and morphophonology.

Illustrative examples are generously supplied, with non abbreviated
glosses as often as possible to ease the reader's processing. Follow a
list of grammatical morphemes and glosses, a bibliography, as well as
a 10-page traditional text translated and broadly segmented. On
typology grounds, the language - polysynthetic to a high degree - is
noteworthy for the productivity of its nominalising devices. It also
shines a light on how a verb lexicon, along with morphology and clause
syntax, can embody complex and refined spatial notions.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation

Language Family(ies): Guahiban

Written In: English (eng)



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