Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia

Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia

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Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.
Cambridge University Press
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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.
EAN 9781107264069
ISBN 1107264065
Binding Ebook
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Publication date August 7, 2003
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.
Series Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions
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