The Makú Language of the Auari River, Northern Amazonia / Raoul Zamponi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zamponi, Raoul, author.

Series:

Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas ; 19

Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides a detailed grammatical and lexical description of Makú (Máku), a language isolate formerly spoken in a remote region of northern Brazilian Amazonia. Based on materials collected by researchers since 1912, it documents a language that became extinct around 2000 with the passing of Kuluta (Sinfrônio Magalhães). Makú represents a remnant of a historically diverse and complex ethnolinguistic landscape, largely erased through the expansion of neighboring groups and colonization. The volume includes seventeen annotated texts and is accompanied by approximately 1,000 audio recordings, allowing direct access to 500 examples from the grammatical description, nearly as many vocabulary items, and ten texts, all recorded from Kuluta, providing an invaluable resource for linguists and researchers of Amazonian languages.

Contents:

Preface and Acknowledgements

List of Tables, Maps, and Figures

Abbreviations and Symbols

1 Introduction

1.1The Makú

1.2Language Contacts

1.3Previous Work and Sources

1.4Attrition Phenomena in Kuluta’s Idiolect and Calques Produced by Elicitation

1.5Aim and Organization of the Book

2 Phonology

2.1Phonological Variation

2.2Phonotactics

2.3Stress

2.4Phonological Processes

2.5Deletion and Contraction Processes in Spontaneous/Fast Speech

3 Word Classes

3.1Property Concept Words as Verbs

3.2Nouns

3.3Pronouns

3.4Quantifiers

3.5Verbs

3.6Adverbs

3.7Conjunctions, Interjections, Ideophones, and Particles

4 Morphology

4.1Inflectional Morphology

4.2Word-Formation Processes

5 Tense, Aspect, Mood, and Evidentiality

5.1Tense

5.2Aspect

5.3Mood

5.4Evidentiality

6 Syntax

6.1Noun Phrases

6.2Verb Phrases

6.3Declarative Clauses

6.4Imperative Clauses

6.5Interrogative Clauses

6.6Exclamatory Clauses

6.7Complex Sentences

6.8Discourse Phenomena

7 Issues in Semantics

7.1Nouns

7.2Personal Pronouns

7.3Stative Verbs

7.4Non-Stative Verbs

7.5Adverbs of Time

8 Texts

8.1The Opossum and the Turtle—Version A

8.2The Opossum and the Turtle—Version B

8.3The Opossum and the Turtle—Version C

8.4The Manioc—Version A

8.5The Manioc—Version B

8.6The Manioc—Version C

8.7The Manioc—Version D

8.8The Wood Stork

8.9Bucha and Makunaima

8.10The Water

8.11The Stone

8.12When I Was Small

8.13My Wedding

8.14Future Plans

8.15Other Plans

8.16Survival Tasks

8.17Valéria’s Illness

8.18Our Garden

9 Vocabulary

9.1Makú–English Vocabulary

9.2English–Makú Finder List

References

Index of Authors, Languages, and Subjects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Zamponi, Raoul The Makú Language of the Auari River, Northern Amazonia

ISBN:

9789004755246

OCLC:

1607920350

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004755246 DOI