A Grammar of Aguaruna (Iiniá Chicham)
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A Grammar of Aguaruna (Iiniá Chicham)

  1. 652 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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A Grammar of Aguaruna (Iiniá Chicham)

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access A Grammar of Aguaruna (Iiniá Chicham) by Simon E. Overall in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Table of contents
  3. Abbreviations and conventions
  4. Maps
  5. 1 Introduction to the Aguaruna language
  6. 2 Cultural and historical context
  7. 3 Phonology
  8. 4 Morphology of nouns, adjectives and pronouns
  9. 5 The noun phrase
  10. 6 The verb
  11. 7 Grammatical relations and transitivity
  12. 8 Tense, aspect and person in finite verbs
  13. 9 Mood and modality
  14. 10 Questions
  15. 11 Negation
  16. 12 Adverbial words
  17. 13 Subordinate clauses
  18. 14 Clause chaining and clause combining
  19. 15 Nominalization
  20. 16 Relative clauses
  21. 17 Speech reports and complement clauses
  22. 18 Discourse organization
  23. Text 1: A man is eaten by a boa
  24. Text 2: Extracts from Pablo’s autobiography
  25. Text 3: Hunting
  26. References
  27. Index