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The Jarawara language of Southern Amazonia / R.M.W. Dixon ; with the assistance of Alan R. Vogel

Author
Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939-
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xx, 636 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Additional Creators
Vogel, Alan R.
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Language Note
Includes some text in Jaruara.
Contents
Contents; List of Plates; List of Tables; Organization and Cross-references; Abbreviations and Conventions; Map 1 Approximate locations of languages of the Arawá family; Map 2 Location of Madi dialects, and of Paumarí; 1 Introduction: The Language and its Speakers; 2 Phonology; 3 Grammatical Overview; 4 Predicate Structure: General; 5 Predicate Structure: Miscellaneous Suffixes; 6 Predicate Structure: The Tense-Modal System; 7 Predicate Structure: Secondary Verbs, Mood, and Negation; 8 Verbal Derivations: Causative and Applicative; 9 Verbal Reduplication; 10 Noun Phrase Structure. and 11 Possessed Nouns, and Adjectives12 Demonstratives and Related Forms; 13 Copula Clauses; 14 Structure of a Verbal Main Clause; 15 Commands and Questions; 16 A-Constructions and O-Constructions; 17 Complement Clauses; 18 Dependent Clauses; 19 Nominalized Clauses; 20 Peripheral Markers jaa and ni-jaa; 21 Other Peripheral Markers; 22 The Relational Noun ihi/ehene 'Due to, Because of'; 23 List Constructions; 24 Syntactic Organization; 25 W.
Summary
The first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest, by one of the world's leading linguists. - ;This is the first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest, and now spoken by less than two hundred people. It has only two open lexical classes, noun and verb, and a closed adjective class with fourteen members which can only modify a noun. Verbs have a complex structure with three prefix and some twenty-five suffix slots. There is an eleven-term tense-modal system with an evidentiality contrast (eye.
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9781429469562 (electronic bk.)
1429469560 (electronic bk.)
9780191515071 (electronic bk.)
0191515078 (electronic bk.)
1280841095
9781280841095
019926256X (hbk.)
9780199262564
0199262578 (pbk.)
9780199262571
0199270678 (Cloth)
9786610841097
6610841098
9780199270675
0199270678
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 612-614) and index.
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