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Author Vallejos, Rosa, author.

Title A grammar of Kukama-Kukamiria : a language from the Amazon / by Rosa Vallejos.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
©2016
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 755 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; volume 13
Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; 13.
Summary This book offers a comprehensive description of Kukama-Kukamiria, spoken by about 1000 elders in the Peruvian Amazon. This grammar comes from fifteen years of fieldwork; it is organized in seventeen chapters dealing with phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse phenomena.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Phonetics and Phonology -- 3. Morpheme Types -- 4. Nouns -- 5. Noun Phrase -- 6. Verbs -- 7. Stative Verbs and Adverbial Words -- 8. Clause Structure -- 9. Postpositional Phrases -- 10. Non-verbal Predication -- 11. Complex Predicates -- 12. Sentence Types -- 13. Clause Combining: Events as Arguments and Modifiers -- 14. Clause Linking -- 15. Co-Ranking Constructions -- 16. Topics in the Syntax-Discourse Interface -- 17. Closing Remarks.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Languages.
Indians of South America.
Amazon River Region.
Language and languages.
Cocama language -- Grammar.
Cocama language.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Vallejos, Rosa. Grammar of Kukama-Kukamiria. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004314511 (DLC) 2016004917 (OCoLC)938394037
ISBN 9789004314528 (electronic book)
9004314520 (electronic book)
9789004314511 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9004314512 (hardback ; alkaline paper)

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