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A GRAMMAR OF TARIANA, FROM NORTHWEST AMAZONIA
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| By: |
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, R. M. W. Dixon, Keren Rice |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521028868 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521028868 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 July, 2006 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions |
| Pages: |
732 |
| Description: |
A comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from the northwest Amazonian jungle. |
| Synopsis: |
This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonian jungle. Its speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as a result most people are fluent in five or six languages. Because of this rampant multilingualism, Tariana combines a number of features inherited from the protolanguage with properties diffused from neighbouring but unrelated Tucanoan languages. Typologically unusual features of the language include: an array of classifiers independent of genders, complex serial verbs, case marking depending on the topicality of a noun, and double marking of case and of number. Tariana has obligatory evidentiality: every sentence contains a special element indicating whether the information was seen, heard, or inferred by the speaker, or whether the speaker acquired it from somebody else. This grammar will be a valuable source-book for linguists and others interested in natural languages. |
| Illustrations: |
1 map 58 tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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