A grammar of Aguaruna (liniá Chicham) / Simon E. Overall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Overall, Simon E., 1975- author.

Series:

Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]

Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ; v.68

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aguaruna dialect.

Jivaran languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (662 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter Mouton, [2017]

Summary:

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Table of contents

Abbreviations and conventions

Maps

1 Introduction to the Aguaruna language

2 Cultural and historical context

3 Phonology

4 Morphology of nouns, adjectives and pronouns

5 The noun phrase

6 The verb

7 Grammatical relations and transitivity

8 Tense, aspect and person in finite verbs

9 Mood and modality

10 Questions

11 Negation

12 Adverbial words

13 Subordinate clauses

14 Clause chaining and clause combining

15 Nominalization

16 Relative clauses

17 Speech reports and complement clauses

18 Discourse organization

Text 1: A man is eaten by a boa

Text 2: Extracts from Pablo’s autobiography

Text 3: Hunting

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110405590

3110405598

OCLC:

1306539534