A grammar of Hup / by Patience Epps.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Epps, Patience, 1973-

Series:

Mouton grammar library ; 43.

Mouton grammar library, 0933-7636 ; 43

Language:

English

South American Indian (Other)

Subjects (All):

Jupda language--Grammar.

Jupda language.

Jupda language--Phonology.

Jupda language--Morphosyntax.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

no CD-ROM in POD-edition

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2008.

Language Note:

English and Jupda.

Summary:

This work is a reference grammar of Hup, a member of the Nadahup family (also known as Makú or Vaupés-Japura), which is spoken in the fascinatingly multilingual Vaupés region of the northwest Amazon. This detailed description and analysis is informed by a functional-typological perspective, with particular reference to areal contact and grammaticalization. The grammar begins with an introduction to the cultural and linguistic background of Hup speakers, gives an overview of the phonology, and follows this with chapters on morphosyntax (nominal morphology, verbs and verb compounding, tense, aspect, modality, evidentiality, etc.); it concludes with discussions of negation, the simple clause, and clause combining. A number of features of Hup grammar are typologically significant, such as its strategy of inversion in question formation, its system of Differential Object Marking, and its treatment of possession. Hup also exhibits several highly unusual paths of grammaticalization, such as the development of a verbal future suffix from the noun‘stick, tree’. The book also includes a selection of texts and a CD-ROM with audio files.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Chapter 1 Hup and its speakers

Chapter 2 Phonology

Chapter 3 The architecture of the word: parts of speech and formatives

Chapter 4 The noun and nominal morphology

Chapter 5 The complex noun: compounding, possession, and noun classification

Chapter 6 The noun phrase: modification and definiteness

Chapter 7 Nominal discourse-marking morphology

Chapter 8 The verb word

Chapter 9 The compound verb

Chapter 10 Adjectives and adverbial expressions

Chapter 11 Adjusting valency

Chapter 12 Aspect

Chapter 13 Tense and related forms

Chapter 14 Modality and evidentiality

Chapter 15 Sentence-level affect marking

Chapter 16 Negation

Chapter 17 Simple clauses

Chapter 18 Clause combining

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [943]-968) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613428479

9781283428477

1283428474

9783110199079

3110199076

OCLC:

476196880