A Grammar of Mapuche
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A Grammar of Mapuche

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A Grammar of Mapuche

About this book

Mapuche is the language of the Mapuche (or Araucanians), the native inhabitants of central Chile. The Mapuche language, also called Mapudungu, is spoken by about 400,000 people in Chile and 40,000 in Argentina. The Mapuche people, estimated at about one million, constitute the majority of the Chilean indigenous population. The history of the Mapuche is the story of passionate fighters who managed to stop the Inca's but succumbed to the Spanish invaders after two and a half century of warfare.
The relationship of the Mapuche language with other Amerindian languages has not yet been established. Mapuche is a highly agglutinative language with a complex verbal morphology.
This book offers a comprehensive and detailed description of the Mapuche language. It contains a grammar (phonology, morphology and syntax), a collection of texts (stories, conversations and songs) with morphological analyses and free translations, and a Mapuche-English dictionary with a large number of derivations and examples. The grammar is preceded by a socio-historical sketch of the Mapuche people and a brief discussion of previous studies of the Mapuche language. The material for the description was collected by the author with the help of five Mapuche speakers with attention to the dialectal differences between them. The abundance of thoroughly analysed examples makes for a lively decription of the language. The intricacy of the verbal morphology will arouse the interest not only of those who practice Amerindian linguistics but also of those who are interested in language theory and language typology.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9783110195583
eBook ISBN
9783110211795
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Contents
  3. Abbreviations and Conventions
  4. Chapter 1. The Mapuche people
  5. Chapter 2. The Mapuche language
  6. Chapter 3. This grammar
  7. Chapter 4. Phonemes
  8. Chapter 5. Phonemic structure of roots, suffixes and words
  9. Chapter 6. Distribution of phonemes
  10. Chapter 7. Stress
  11. Chapter 8. Morphophonology
  12. Chapter 9. Loans
  13. Chapter 10. Nouns
  14. Chapter 11. Adjectives
  15. Chapter 12. Adverbs
  16. Chapter 13. Numerals
  17. Chapter 14. Demonstrative and anaphoric pronouns
  18. Chapter 15. Personal pronouns
  19. Chapter 16. Possessive pronouns
  20. Chapter 17. Interrogative pronouns
  21. Chapter 18. Suffixation
  22. Chapter 19. Compounding
  23. Chapter 20. Reduplication
  24. Chapter 21. Verbalization
  25. Chapter 22. Simple noun phrase
  26. Chapter 23. Complex noun phrase
  27. Chapter 24. Nominal sentences
  28. Chapter 25. Introduction
  29. Chapter 26. Slots
  30. Chapter 27. Unnumbered suffixes
  31. Chapter 28. Derivational nominalizers
  32. Chapter 29. Compounding
  33. Chapter 30. Deictic verbs
  34. Chapter 31. Defective verbs
  35. Chapter 32. Particles
  36. Chapter 33. Introduction
  37. Chapter 34. Word order
  38. Chapter 35. Coordination and subordination
  39. Backmatter

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