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A Typological Grammar of Panare, a Cariban Language of Venezuela / By Thomas E. Payne, Doris L. Payne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Payne, Thomas Edward, 1951-
- Series:
- Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas 5.
- Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Panare language--Grammar.
- Panare language.
- Typology (Linguistics).
- Venezuela--Languages.
- Venezuela.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (485 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Panare, also known as E'ñapa Woromaipu, is a seriously endangered Cariban language spoken by about 3,500 people in Central Venezuela. A Typological Grammar of Panare by Thomas E. Payne and Doris L. Payne, is a full length linguistic grammar written from a modern functional and typological perspective. The many remarkable characteristics highlighted in the grammar include a 'split-inverse' person marking system, transitivity-sensitive aspect and person-marking verb morphology, object incorporation, relatively nonconfigurational NP structure, both verb-initial and object-initial constituent orders, a complex system of clause chaining, switch reference, and a rich system of evidential and epistemic marking.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- The Language and Its Speakers
- Phonology and Morphophonology
- Nouns and Nominals
- Nominal Derivation and “Possessive” Denominalization
- Modification
- The Morphosyntax of the Verb: Organizing Principles
- Verb Stem Derivation
- Past-Perfective Aspect Constructions
- Non-Pastperfective Aspect Constructions
- Minority Class Verbs
- Noun Phrase Structure
- Adpositional Phrases and Oblique Constituents
- Copula Constructions
- Voice and Valence
- Knowing and Not Knowing: Epistemic and Negative Categories
- Commands and the Expression of Deontic Modality
- Questions and Contrastive Constructions
- Complementation
- Adverbial and medial clauses
- Relative and Modifying Clauses
- Two Short Panare Texts
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283855167
- 128385516X
- 9789004242197
- 9004242198
- OCLC:
- 820141835
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004242197 DOI
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