03605nam 2200673 450 991078882730332120230803200422.03-11-039537-13-11-034191-310.1515/9783110341911(CKB)3360000000515142(EBL)1787134(SSID)ssj0001434146(PQKBManifestationID)11807841(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001434146(PQKBWorkID)11421377(PQKB)10586423(MiAaPQ)EBC1787134(DE-B1597)245777(OCoLC)898770080(OCoLC)979732409(DE-B1597)9783110341911(Au-PeEL)EBL1787134(CaPaEBR)ebr11010306(CaONFJC)MIL806776(EXLCZ)99336000000051514220150213h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA grammar of Kulina /Stefan DienstBerlin, [Germany] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :De Gruyter Mouton,2014.©20141 online resource (330 p.)Mouton Grammar Library,0933-7636 ;Volume 66Description based upon print version of record.3-11-034192-1 3-11-033968-4 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Abbreviations, symbols and conventions -- Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phonetics and phonology -- 3. Nouns -- 4. Dynamic verbs -- 5. Stative verbs -- 6. Adjectives -- 7. Other word classes -- 8. Possession -- 9. Noun phrases -- 10. Copula, verbless and existential clauses -- 11. Verbal main clauses -- 12. Clause embedding and coordination -- 13. Adverbial clauses -- 14. Word formation -- 15. Lexicon -- Text 1 -- Text 2 -- References -- IndexThis book is a reference grammar of Kulina, an Amazonian language spoken in Brazil and Peru. The dialect described by the author is spoken on the upper Purus River in the Brazilian state of Acre. Kulina belongs to the Arawan language family. It is predominantly head-marking and has a complex verbal morphology which is largely agglutinating with some instances of fusion. The language has two noun classes and two genders. The gender agreement of transitive verbs with their arguments is in part governed by intricate grammatical rules and in part pragmatically driven. There are three types of possession, alienable, inalienable, and kinship. The latter category only applies to some kinship nouns, while others are alienably possessed. Kulina has aspirated and unaspirated obstruents, but different aspirated obstruents do not co-occur in one morpheme due to Grassmann's law, a dissimilation process known from Sanskrit and Ancient Greek. The book contains two Kulina texts and a chapter on the lexicon, which discusses colour terms, generic nouns for plants and animals, pet vocatives, idioms, and the origin of loan words. Mouton grammar library ;Volume 66.Culina languageGrammarAmazonian Languages.Arawan.Kulina.Culina languageGrammar.498.3EE 7458rvkDienst Stefan1524246MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788827303321A grammar of Kulina3764923UNINA