Chris Rogers

Máku (eBook, PDF)

A Comprehensive Grammar

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comprehensive grammar of the Máku language, spoken by the jukudeitse who once lived in Venezuela and Brazil. Based on fieldwork with the final two speakers of the language, it describes all core aspects of the grammatical system as they have been recorded; presented through lexical items, example sentences and texts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000260328
• Artikelnr.: 60670262

Autorenporträt

Chris Rogers is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Brigham Young University, USA. Motivated by a passion for linguistic fieldwork, he has conducted original research on the Xinkan (Guatemala), Inapari (Peru), Mixteco (Mexico), Wichi' (Argentina), Quechua (Peru), Ninam (Brazil) and Maku (Venezuela) languages.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Symbols
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS OF MÁKU
1.1.1 The use of Máku in the Wider Pre- and Post-contact Context
1.1.2 Language contact
1.2 DATA SOURCES AND THE MÁKU DATABASE
1.2.1 Sinfrônio's idiolect
1.3 ORGANIZATION OF THE GRAMMAR
CHAPTER 2 PHONOLOGY
2.1 CONSONANTS
2.1.1 Phonological alternations affecting consonants
2.1.2 Consonant distribution
2.2 VOWELS
2.2.1 Phonological alternations affecting vowels
2.2.2 Vowel distribution
2.3 SYLLABLE STRUCTURE
2.4 STRESS ASSIGNMENT
CHAPTER 3 MORPHOLOGY PART I: WORD CLASSES AND INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY
3.1 NOUNS
3.1.1 Number
3.1.2 Case
3.1.3 Possession
3.2 PRONOUNS
3.2.1 Personal pronouns
3.2.2 Demonstrative pronouns
3.2.3 Interrogative pronouns
3.2.4 Indefinite pronouns
3.3 QUANTIFIERS
3.3.1 Numbers
3.3.2 Indefinite quantifiers
3.4 POSTPOSITIONS
3.5 VERBS
3.5.1 Agreement
3.5.2 Tense-aspect-mood-evidentiality
3.5.3 Suppletion
3.6 ADVERBS
3.7 CONJUNCTIONS, INTERJECTIONS, IDEOPHONES, AND LEXICALIZATION
CHAPTER 4 MORPHOLOGY PART II: DERIVATIONAL MORPHOLOGY AND COMPOUNDS
4.1 DERIVATIONAL MORPHEMES
4.1.1 Diminutive -taka
4.1.2 Approximative -dakaja
4.1.3 Limitation suffix -mu
4.1.4 Verbal noun -na
4.1.5 Desiderative/negative desiderative suffixes
4.1.6 Bereavement
4.1.7 Circular-motion suffix -liku and circumventing-motion suffix -dakana
4.1.8 Valency-adjusting ku-
4.1.9 Reduplication
4.1.10 -ema
4.1.11 Allative -le
4.2 STEM COMPOUNDS
4.2.1 Idiomatic noun phrases
4.3 FLUIDITY OF GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES
CHAPTER 5 SYNTAX
5.1 CONSTITUENT PHRASES AND DECLARATIVE CLAUSES
5.1.1 Phrases
5.1.2 Declarative clause types
5.2 IMPERATIVE CLAUSES
5.3 INTERROGATIVE CLAUSES
5.3.1 Constituent questions
5.3.2 Polarity questions
5.4 COMPLEX SENTENCES
5.4.1 Coordination
5.4.2 Subordination
5.5 INFORMATION STRUCTURE
5.5.1 Ellipsis
5.5.2 Focus positions and the clitic =ke
5.5.3 Particles etsiwa and ijani
CHAPTER 6 TYPOLOGICAL SIMILARITIES
CHAPTER 7 TEXTS
7.1 THE OPOSSUM AND THE TURTLE
7.2 BUCHA AND MAKUNAIMA
7.3 MENIWA
7.4 FLOOD
7.5 MALOAKA
CHAPTER 8 GLOSSARIES
8.1 MÁKU-ENGLISH-PORTUGUESE GLOSSARY
8.2 ENGLISH-MÁKU WORD LIST
REFERENCES
INDEX