The first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest, by one of the world's leading linguists. INDICE: 1: Introduction: The Language and its Speakers; 2: Phonology; 3: Grammatical Overview; 4: Predicate Structure - General; 5: Predicate Structure - Miscellaneous Suffixes; 6: Predicate Structure - The Tense-Modal System; 7: Predicate Structure - Secondary Verbs, Mood, and Negation; 8: Verbal Derivations - Causative and Applicative; 9: Verbal Reduplication; 10: Noun Phrase Structure; 11: Possessed Nouns and Adjectives; 12: Demonstratives and Related Forms; 13: Copula Clauses; 14: Structure of a Verbal Main Clause; 15: Commands and Questions; 16: A-Contructions and O-Constructions; 17: Complement Clauses; 18: Dependent Clauses; 19: Nominalised Clauses; 20: Peripheral Marker jaa and ni-jaa; 21: Other Peripheral Markers; 22: The Relational Noun ihi/ehene 'Due to, Because of'; 23: List Constructions; 24: Syntactic Organisation; 25: Word Class Derivations; 26: Topics in Semantics; 27: Prehistory
- ISBN: 978-0-19-960069-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 732
- Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés