Nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages / edited by Simon Overall, Rosa Vallejos, Spike Gildea.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Overall, Simon E., 1975- editor.

Vallejos, Rosa, editor.

Gildea, Spike, editor.

Conference Name:

Amazônicas (Conference) (5th : 2014 : Belém, Brazil)

Series:

Typological studies in language. 0167-7373 ; Volume 122.

Typological studies in language ; Volume 122

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amazon River Region--Languages--Topic and comment--Congresses.

Amazon River Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018.

Summary:

This volume explores typological variation within nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages. Using abundant data, generally from original and extensive fieldwork on under-described languages, it presents a far more detailed picture of nonverbal predication constructions than previously published grammatical descriptions. On the one hand, it addresses the fact that current typologies of nonverbal predication are less developed than those of verbal predication; on the other, it provides a wealth of new data and analyses of Amazonian languages, which are still poorly represented in existing typologies. Several contributions offer historical insights, either reconstructing the sources of innovative nonverbal predicate constructions, or describing diachronic pathways by which constructions used for nonverbal predication spread to other functions in the grammar. The introduction provides a modern typological overview, and also proposes a new diachronic typology to explain how distinct types of nonverbal predication arise.

Contents:

Cover Page

Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Nonverbal predication in Amazonia: Typological and diachronic considerations

1. Preliminaries

1.1 Defining nonverbal predication

1.2 What constitutes an Amazonian language?

2. Structural properties

2.1 Nonverbal predication that resembles verbal predication

2.2 Nonverbal predication that is distinct from verbal predication

2.3 Partially verbal copulas

2.4 Alternation and suppletion

3. Mapping semantic functions and structural strategies

4. Diachronic development of nonverbal clauses and copulas

4.1 A diachronic typology of nonverbal predication

4.2 Specific diachronic changes identified in Amazonian languages

4.3 Some problems of determining directionality

5. This volume

Part I. Overviews of nonverbal predication in individual languages

Part II. Exploring specific subtypes of nonverbal predicates

Part III. Diachronic pathways to and from nonverbal predication

Abbreviations and conventions

References

Part I. Overviews of nonverbal predication in individual languages: Overviews of nonverbal predication in individual languages

Chapter 2. Nonverbal predication and the nonverbal clause type of Mojen o Trinitario

1. Introduction

2. Grammar overview

3. The expression of nonverbal predication in Mojen o Trinitario

3.1 Equation (or identity)

3.2 Inclusion

3.3 Attribution

3.4 Quantification

3.5 Location

3.6 Temporality

3.7 Existence

3.8 Possession

4. The nonverbal clause type of Mojen o Trinitario

4.1 Properties shared with the verbal clause type

4.2 Properties specific to the nonverbal clause type

5. Conclusion

Abbreviations

Chapter 3. Nonverbal predication in Paresi-Haliti

1. Introduction.

2. Typological approach to nonverbal predication

3. Nouns, verbs and adjectives in Paresi

4. Copulas tyaona and aka

5. Class-membership predicates

6. Possessive predicates

7. Property-concept predicates

8. Locational/ existential predicates

9. Negation of nonverbal predicates

10. Final considerations

Chapter 4. Nonverbal predication in Karinja (Cariban, Suriname): Nonverbal predication in Kari nja (Cariban, Suriname)

1.1 Nonverbal predicate forms

1.2 Functional categories of nonverbal predication

1.3 Demographics

2. Kari'nja nonverbal predication

2.1 Apposition

2.2 Copula

2.3 Verbal copula

2.4 Constructions compared

3. Conclusions and future work

Chapter 5. Nonverbal predicates and copula constructions in Aguaruna (Chicham)

2. Clause types in Aguaruna

2.1 Transitivity and grammatical relations

2.2 Finiteness

3. Copula clauses

4. The enclitic copula construction

4.1 Person and number of subject

4.2 Tense and aspect

4.3 Mood

4.4 Polarity

4.5 Non finite clause types

4.6 Summary of the enclitic copula construction

5. The verbless clause construction

6. The verbal copula

6.1 Copula and existential

6.2 Other copula verbs

7. Copula constructions beyond copula clauses

8. Concluding comments

Chapter 6. To hi or not to hi?: Nonverbal predication with and without the copula in Kotiria and Waikhana (East Tukano)

Introduction

1. The copulas hi/ihi

1.1 To hi: Copular sentences with nominal predicates

1.2 To hi: Copular sentences with locative predicates

1.3 And still to hi: Nominalized adjectival predicates in copular clauses

1.4 Morphology with the copula

1.5 Derivations from the copula.

2. Or not to hi: Copula alternatives

2.1 Positional-locative predicates

2.2 Negation of the copula and predicates of non-existence

2.3 Predicate possession verbs

3. To hi, not to hi, or to ni! - the East Tukano copula as an auxiliary

4. Summary and concluding remarks

Acknowledgements

Chapter 7. Between verb and noun: Exploration into the domain of nonverbal predication in Ecuadorian Secoya

2. Verb inflection, insubordination, and nominalization

3. Predicative means in nonverbal predication

3.1 Particle copula -a-

3.2 Locative-existential copula verb p̰aɁi-

3.3 Affiliation participle a-

3.4 Attributive participle kɨ i-

4. Concluding remarks

Glosses and abbreviations

Chapter 8. Nonverbal predication in Movima

2. Outline of Movima basic clause structure

3. Distinguishing verbal from nonverbal predicates: The marking of embedded predicates

4. Nominal predicates

4.1 Equational clauses

4.2 Reduplicated nouns as possessive predicates

5. Other nonverbal predicates

5.1 Demonstrative predicates

5.2 Locative adverbs as predicates

5.3 The negative copula

6. Pronominal predicates

6.1 Personal pronouns as stand-alone predicates

6.2 Pronominal predicates with an adverbial clause

6.3 Pronominal predicates with a bare content word: The pronominal construction

7. Conclusion

Symbols and abbreviations

Chapter 9. Nonverbal predication in Ninam (northern Brazil): Nonverbal predication in Ninam (northern Brazil)

1.1 Basic sentence structure.

1.2 Verb classes

2. Nonverbal predication

2.1 Nonverbal predicates with a copula

2.2 Nonverbal clauses

3. Status of adjectives as a distinct word class

Part II. Exploring specific subtypes of nonverbal predicates: Exploring specific subtypes of nonverbal predicates

Chapter 10. Locative, existential and possessive predication in the Chaco: Nivacle (Mataguayan) and Pilaga (Guaykuruan)

2. Nivaccle preliminaries

Determiner phrase

Predicate phrase

3. The Nivacle locative predication construction

4. Nivacle existential constructions

5. Nivacc le possessive predication constructions

5.1 type i possessive predication construction (Heine s Genitive schema)

5.2 type ii possessive predication construction (Heine's Goal schema)

5.3 negative possessive predication construction

5.4 Bi-clausal be.at construction

6. Pilaga nonverbal predications

7. The Pilaga affirmative locative predication construction

8. The Pilaga affirmative existential construction

9. Pilaga affirmative possessive predication constructions

10. Pilaga negative constructions

11. Conclusions and contact issues

Chapter 11. Possessive semantic relations and construction types in Kukama-Kukamiria: Possessive semantic relations and construction types in Kukama-Kukamiria

1. The Kukama-Kukamirias

1.1 Ownership among the Kukama-Kukamirias

1.2 The language and the data

2. Semantic possession relations and construction types

3. Possession in Kukama-Kukamiria

3.1 Equative construction

3.2 Existential constructions

4. Summary and conclusions

References.

Part III. Diachronic pathways to and from nonverbal predication: Diachronic pathways to and from nonverbal predication

Chapter 12. Constructions with has(a) in Wampis

2. Brief background of the Wampis language

3. Copular constructions in Wampis

4. The verb has(a) in Wampis

5. On the diachrony of has(a) become

6. The form and meaning of has(a) in Wampis

6.1 has(a) as a verb

6.2 Particularities and restrictions of has(a)

7. Has as a particle: NP/ADJP has V

8. Further developments of has

8.1 The construction NP NP/AdjP has

8.2 Temporal and locational uses of has

9. Conclusions

Chapter 13. Evidence for the development of action nominals in Aweti towards ergatively-marked predicates: Evidence for the development of action nominals in Awetí towards ergatively-marked predicates

1 Introduction

2. Predicate nominal clauses

3. Verbal clauses

4. Action nominal constructions (ANCs)

4.1 Morphological form

4.2 Argument structure of ANCs

4.3 Use of ANCs inside the NP

5. ANCs as main clause predicates

6. Development of ANCs in main clause function towards verbal function

7. Discussion

Chapter 14. Reconstructing the copulas and nonverbal predicate constructions in Cariban

2. Syntax of nonverbal predicates in the Cariban family

2.1 The juxtaposition construction: NP predicates with no copula

2.2 Copular constructions: Adverbial predicates (PP or Adverb)

2.3 Existential constructions

2.4 Other constructions that use the copula (in more of an auxiliary function)

3. Morphology of copulas in the Cariban family

3.1 Reconstructing three inflections with a/ ap cop1

3.2 Reconstructing eti dwell cop2

3.3 Looking for more cognates: Relic zones.

4. A first approximation of the story of copular innovation in Cariban.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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