A Grammar of Aguaruna (Iiniá Chicham) - Simon E. Overall

A Grammar of Aguaruna (Iiniá Chicham)

Buch | Softcover
XXVI, 636 Seiten
2018
de Gruyter Mouton (Verlag)
978-3-11-063491-4 (ISBN)
39,95 inkl. MwSt
The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.
This book is a descriptive grammar of Aguaruna, known to its speakers as Iiniá Chicham, a Jivaroan language spoken by some 55,000 people in the northwest Peruvian Amazon. Aguaruna is typologically and historically significant because of its location in the eastern foothills of the Andes, right between the Andean and Amazonian linguistic areas. Some typologically unusual syntactic phenomena, for example in the areas of grammatical relations and case marking, make this description relevant beyond the areal context. This is the first full grammar of a Jivaroan language, covering phonology, morphology and syntax as well as addressing some issues in discourse structure. It is an important work for specialists in South American languages as well as for linguists working in more general typological fields.

Simon E. Overall, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] ; 68
Verlagsort Basel/Berlin/Boston
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 1283 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte Aguaruna • Amazonian • grammar • Jivaroan
ISBN-10 3-11-063491-0 / 3110634910
ISBN-13 978-3-11-063491-4 / 9783110634914
Zustand Neuware
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