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Autore |
Payne Thomas Edward <1951-> |
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Titolo |
A typological grammar of Panare, a Cariban language of Venezuela [[electronic resource] /] / by Thomas E. Payne, Doris L. Payne |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-85516-X |
90-04-24219-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (485 p.) |
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Collana |
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Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas ; ; 5 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Panare language - Grammar |
Panare language - Syntax |
Typology (Linguistics) |
Venezuela Languages |
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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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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- The Language and Its Speakers -- Phonology and Morphophonology -- Nouns and Nominals -- Nominal Derivation and “Possessive” Denominalization -- Modification -- The Morphosyntax of the Verb: Organizing Principles -- Verb Stem Derivation -- Past-Perfective Aspect Constructions -- Non-Pastperfective Aspect Constructions -- Minority Class Verbs -- Noun Phrase Structure -- Adpositional Phrases and Oblique Constituents -- Copula Constructions -- Voice and Valence -- Knowing and Not Knowing: Epistemic and Negative Categories -- Commands and the Expression of Deontic Modality -- Questions and Contrastive Constructions -- Complementation -- Adverbial and medial clauses -- Relative and Modifying Clauses -- Two Short Panare Texts -- References -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Panare, also known as E'ñapa Woromaipu, is a seriously endangered Cariban language spoken by about 3,500 people in Central Venezuela. A Typological Grammar of Panare by Thomas E. Payne and Doris L. Payne, is a full length linguistic grammar written from a modern functional and typological perspective. The many remarkable characteristics highlighted in the grammar include a 'split-inverse' |
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