Smeets A Grammar of Mapuche

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-021179-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 41, 607 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]ISSN

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.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and Advanced Students of Amerindian Linguistics, Lang

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smeets, Ineke

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;9
3;Abbreviations and Conventions;17
4;Chapter 1. The Mapuche people;23
5;Chapter 2. The Mapuche language;29
6;Chapter 3. This grammar;35
7;Chapter 4. Phonemes;43
8;Chapter 5. Phonemic structure of roots, suffixes and words;57
9;Chapter 6. Distribution of phonemes;61
10;Chapter 7. Stress;69
11;Chapter 8. Morphophonology;71
12;Chapter 9. Loans;75
13;Chapter 10. Nouns;81
14;Chapter 11. Adjectives;91
15;Chapter 12. Adverbs;93
16;Chapter 13. Numerals;99
17;Chapter 14. Demonstrative and anaphoric pronouns;103
18;Chapter 15. Personal pronouns;117
19;Chapter 16. Possessive pronouns;123
20;Chapter 17. Interrogative pronouns;125
21;Chapter 18. Suffixation;129
22;Chapter 19. Compounding;137
23;Chapter 20. Reduplication;139
24;Chapter 21. Verbalization;141
25;Chapter 22. Simple noun phrase;151
26;Chapter 23. Complex noun phrase;153
27;Chapter 24. Nominal sentences;163
28;Chapter 25. Introduction;169
29;Chapter 26. Slots;197
30;Chapter 27. Unnumbered suffixes;329
31;Chapter 28. Derivational nominalizers;331
32;Chapter 29. Compounding;335
33;Chapter 30. Deictic verbs;341
34;Chapter 31. Defective verbs;345
35;Chapter 32. Particles;349
36;Chapter 33. Introduction;365
37;Chapter 34. Word order;367
38;Chapter 35. Coordination and subordination;377
39;Backmatter;383

Über Autor(innen)

Ineke Smeets, St-Martensvoeren, Belgium.