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Autore |
Dixon Robert M. W |
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The Jarawara language of Southern Amazonia [[electronic resource] /] / R.M.W. Dixon ; with the assistance of Alan R. Vogel |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-84109-5 |
0-19-151507-8 |
1-4294-6956-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (661 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jaruára language - Grammar |
Jaruára language - Lexicology |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Series title from jacket. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [612]-614) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Plates; List of Tables; Organization and Cross-references; Abbreviations and Conventions; Map 1 Approximate locations of languages of the Arawá family; Map 2 Location of Madi dialects, and of Paumarí; 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 Adjectives12 Demonstratives and Related Forms; 13 Copula Clauses; 14 Structure of a Verbal Main Clause; 15 Commands and Questions; 16 A-Constructions and O-Constructions; 17 Complement Clauses; 18 Dependent Clauses; 19 Nominalized Clauses; 20 Peripheral Markers jaa and ni-jaa; 21 Other Peripheral Markers; 22 The Relational Noun ihi/ehene 'Due to, Because of'; 23 List Constructions; 24 Syntactic Organization; 25 Word Class Derivations; 26 Topics in Semantics; 27 Prehistory; Texts; References; Vocabulary; List of Affixes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great |
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complexity and unusual interest, by one of the world's leading linguists. - ;This is the first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest, and now spoken by less than two hundred people. It has only two open lexical classes, noun and verb, and a closed adjective class with fourteen members which can only modify a noun. Verbs have a complex structure with three prefix and some twenty-five suffix slots. There is an eleven-term tense-modal system with an evidentiality contrast (eye |
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