| Negation in Arawak Languages Contributor(s): Michael, Lev (Editor), Granadillo, Tania (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004257012 ISBN-13: 9789004257016 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $141.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation - Foreign Language Study | Native American Languages |
| Dewey: 498.39 |
| LCCN: 2014001302 |
| Series: Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.50 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Negation in Arawak Languages presents detailed descriptions of negation constructions in nine Arawak languages (Apurin , Garifuna, Kurripako, Lokono, Moje o Trinitario, Nanti, Paresi, Tariana, and Wauja), as well as an overview of negation in this major language family. Functional-typological in orientation, each descriptive chapter in the volume is based on fieldwork by authors in the communities in which the languages are spoken. Chapters describe standard negation, prohibitives, existential negation, negative indefinites, and free negation, as well as language-specific negation phenomena such as morphological privatives, the interaction of negation with verbal inflectional categories, and negation in clause-linking constructions. Informed by typological approaches to negation, this volume will be of interest to specialists in Arawak languages, typologists, historical linguists, and theoretical linguists. |