| A Grammar of Aguaruna (Iiniá Chicham) Contributor(s): Overall, Simon E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3110405571 ISBN-13: 9783110405576 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $178.59 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Morphology - Foreign Language Study | Native American Languages - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Syntax |
| Dewey: 498.37 |
| LCCN: 2016005223 |
| Series: Mouton Grammar Library [Mgl] |
| Physical Information: 1.44" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (2.75 lbs) 652 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Overall, Simon E.: - Simon E. Overall, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia. |