A Grammar of Aguaruna (Iiniá Chicham)

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-11-040557-6
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 68, 636 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1284 g

Reihe: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]

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.

Zielgruppe

Specialists in South American languages, Linguists in more General Typological Fields

Autoren/Hrsg.

Overall, Simon E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Über Autor(innen)

Simon E. Overall, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.