A grammar of Moseten / by Jeanette Sakel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sakel, Jeanette, 1973-

Series:

Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]

Mouton grammar library ; 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moseten language--Grammar.

Moseten language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (536 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mosetén belongs to the small, unclassified language family Mosetenan and is spoken by roughly 800 people in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes and the adjoining lowland region. This book provides a grammatical description of Mosetén in the form of a descriptive reference grammar. It is based on the author's extensive fieldwork in Bolivia and is intended to be comprehensive and aimed at linguists from all backgrounds. Belonging to an unclassified language family, Mosetén is of special interest to typologists, historical linguists, contact linguists and South Americanists. The grammar is divided into a chapter on phonology (2.) and six chapters on the morphology: morphological processes (3.) the nominal system (4.), pronouns and reference (5.), adjectives and adverbs (6.), quantification (7.) and the verbal system (8.). These chapters are followed by voice (9.), negation (10.) and modality and discourse markers (11.). Finally, there are two syntactically oriented chapters on clause types (12.) and clause combinations (13.). In the appendix, three types of texts, a list of morphemes, a list of references and further bibliographical notes are added. Furthermore, there is an index. This grammar is the first accessible and comprehensive description of a Mosetenan language.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Phonology

Chapter 3. Morphological processes

Chapter 4. The nominal system

Chapter 5. Pronouns and reference

Chapter 6. Adjectives and adverbs

Chapter 7. Quantification

Chapter 8. The verbal system. 8.1. Verbal inflection

Chapter 8. The verbal system. 8.2. Morphophonological characteristics of verbal stems

Chapter 8. The verbal system. 8.3. Verbal stem markers

Chapter 8. The verbal system. 8.4. Incorporation markers

Chapter 8. The verbal system. 8.5. Aspect

Chapter 8. The verbal system. 8.6. Associated motion

Chapter 9. Voice

Chapter 10. Negation

Chapter 11. Modality and discourse markers

Chapter 12. Clause types

Chapter 13. Clause combinations

Appendix I. Texts

Appendix II. Word order in written texts

Appendix III. List of grammatical markers

Notes

References

Further materials about Mosetén and Chimane

Index

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. [485]-488) and index.

ISBN:

9783110915280

3110915286

OCLC:

811406219