03668nam 2200649 a 450 991078473550332120230719184106.01-383-04142-30-19-926257-81-280-84109-50-19-151507-81-4294-6956-0(CKB)1000000000405011(EBL)422557(OCoLC)437108823(SSID)ssj0000185237(PQKBManifestationID)12039288(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000185237(PQKBWorkID)10210079(PQKB)10122565(MiAaPQ)EBC422557(Au-PeEL)EBL422557(CaPaEBR)ebr10263644(CaONFJC)MIL84109(EXLCZ)99100000000040501120050223d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Jarawara language of Southern Amazonia /R.M.W. Dixon ; with the assistance of Alan R. VogelOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20041 online resource (xx, 636 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) illustrations, mapsOxford linguisticsSeries title from jacket.0-19-960069-4 0-19-927067-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [612]-614) and index.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 Structure11 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-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; IndexThe first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great 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.Oxford linguistics.Jaruára languageGrammarJaruára languageLexicologyJaruára languageGrammar.Jaruára languageLexicology.498/.9Dixon Robert M. W.1939-110045Vogel Alan R978528MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784735503321The Jarawara language of Southern Amazonia2230362UNINA