HANDBOOK AMAZONIAN LANGUAGESDesmond C. Derbyshire, Geoffrey K. Pullum The fourth volume in a series on the languages of Amazonia. This volume includes grammatical descriptions of Wai Wai, Warekena, a comparative survey of morphosyntactic features of the Tupi-Guarani languages, and a paper on interclausal reference phenomena in Amahuaca. |
Contents
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Warekena | 225 |
Typological Study Amahuaca Panoan | 441 |
Comparative Study TupíGuaraní | 487 |
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Handbook of Amazonian Languages, Volume 4 Desmond C. Derbyshire,Geoffrey K. Pullum Limited preview - 1986 |
Handbook of Amazonian Languages, Volume 4 Desmond C. Derbyshire,Geoffrey K. Pullum Snippet view - 1986 |
Handbook of Amazonian Languages, Volume 4 Desmond C. Derbyshire,Geoffrey K. Pullum No preview available - 1986 |
Common terms and phrases
3PRO a:tapi action adpositions adverbs ADVZR affixes allomorphs Amahuaca amna aspect Baniwa čé clitic co-occur COLL consonant constituent controlling verb copula coreferential cross-referencing DECL deer derived enclitics encodes ergative examples free form grammatical Guajajára Guaraní ideophones independent verbs indicates intransitive IRMS jaguar Kaiwá Kayabí killed komo kulimalu kulua Linguistics locative main clause Maipuran malayu marked clause mawaya meaning morpheme morphological nasal negation negative nominalized noro noun stems object okwe particle pausal form payalu perfective aspect person markers person prefix peya phonological word plural possession possessor postposition preceded predicate prefix occurs proclitic pronoun Proto-Tupí-Guaraní rabbit reference reflexive Rodrigues second person sect sentence serial verb construction snake speaker subordinate clause suffix syllable syntactic tapir Tariana tense then-PAUS third person transitive verbs tree Tupí-Guaraní languages Tupinambá turtle Urubú-Kaapor verb stem vowel wa-hã Warekena Wayampi weni yaliwa