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| - 'A fundamental grammatical description of this sort - complete with glossed texts, dictionary materials, a wealth of diachronic insights, and authoritative social and cultural information about the speakers - might be expected to constitute the crowning achievement in a lifetime of successful effort. For this author, however, it is merely another in a long roster of outstanding linguistic
accomplishments that promise to continue unabated.' - Edward J Vajda, Western Washington University
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| Description | | - First account of a uniquely complex and unusual language
- Entirely based on field work by the authors
| | 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 (eyewitness/non-eyewitness) in the three past tenses. Of the two genders, feminine and masculine, feminine is unmarked. There are at least eight types of subordinate clause constructions, including complement clauses, relative clauses, coreferential dependent clauses, and 'when', 'if', 'due to the lack of' and 'because of' clauses.There
are only eleven consonants and four vowels but an extensive set of ordered phonological rules of lenition, vowel assimilation and unstressed syllable omission. There are four imperative inflections (with different meanings) and three explicit interrogative suffixes within the mood system. The book is entirely based on field work by the authors. |
| Contents |
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 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.
NOMINALISED CLAUSES
20.
PERIPHERAL MARKER jaa AND ni-jaa
21.
OTHER PERIPHERAL MARKERS
22.
THE RELATIONAL NOUN ihi/ehene 'DUE TO, BECAUSE OF'
23.
LIST CONSTRUCTIONS
24.
SYNTACTIC ORGANISATION
25.
WORD CLASS DERIVATIONS
26.
TOPICS IN SEMANTICS
27.
PREHISTORY
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
R. M. W. Dixon, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University
with Alan R. Vogel, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Porto Velho
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