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Conference Amazônicas (Conference) (5th : 2014 : Belém, Brazil), author.

Title Nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages / edited by Simon E. Overall, Rosa Vallejos, Spike Gildea.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 407 pages).
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Series Typological studies in language (TSL), 0167-7373 ; volume 122
Typological studies in language ; v. 122.
Note Consists of 13 articles selected from 32 presentations at a special session on nonverbal predication at the international conference, Amazônicas V, that took place in Belém, Brazil, in May 2014.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Nonverbal predication in Amazonia: Typological and diachronic considerations -- Nonverbal predication and the nonverbal clause type of Mojeño Trinitario -- Nonverbal predication in Paresi-Haliti -- Nonverbal predication in Kari'nja (Cariban, Suriname) -- Nonverbal predicates and copula constructions in Aguaruna (Chicham) -- To hi or no to hi? Nonverbal predication with and without the copula in Kotiria and Wa'ikhana (East Tukano) -- Between verb and noun: exploration into the domain of nonverbal predication in Ecuadorian Secoya -- Nonverbal predication in Movima -- Nonverbal predication in Ninam (northern Brazil) -- Locative, existential and possessive predication in the Chaco: Nivacle (Mataguayan) and Pilaga (Guaykuruan) -- Possessive semantic relations and construction types in Kukama-Kukamiria -- Construction with has(a) in Wampis -- Evidence for the development of action nominals in Aweti towards ergatively-marked predicates -- Reconstructing the copulas and nonverbal predicate constructions in Cariban.
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Subject Amazon River Region -- Languages -- Topic and comment -- Congresses.
Amazon River Region.
Language and languages.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Overall, Simon E., 1975- editor.
Vallejos, Rosa, editor.
Gildea, Spike, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Amazônicas (Conference) (5th : 2014 : Belém, Brazil). Nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018 9789027200525 (DLC) 2018002596
ISBN 9789027264244 (electronic book)
9027264244 (electronic book)
9789027200525 (hardcover alkaline paper)