{"product_id":"a-grammar-of-tariana-from-northwest-amazonia-paperback-9780521028868","title":"A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521028868","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from the northwest Amazonian jungle.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521028868, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 November 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e732 pages, 1 map  58 tables\u003cbr\u003e24.3 x 17 x 3.8 cm, 1.143 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"[...]a masterly piece of work[...]useful to the ordinary working linguist[...]It can be used as a model for writing a detailed technical grammar of an unusual language. It is an excellent model for anyone who must write a grammar of a severely endangered language, especially when the grammar is likely to be THE scholarly repository for all human time of that language's structure.\"  \u003cbr\u003e-Terry Malone, SIL\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonian jungle. Its speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as a result most people are fluent in five or six languages. Because of this rampant multilingualism, Tariana combines a number of features inherited from the protolanguage with properties diffused from neighbouring but unrelated Tucanoan languages. Typologically unusual features of the language include: an array of classifiers independent of genders, complex serial verbs, case marking depending on the topicality of a noun, and double marking of case and of number. Tariana has obligatory evidentiality: every sentence contains a special element indicating whether the information was seen, heard, or inferred by the speaker, or whether the speaker acquired it from somebody else. This grammar will be a valuable source-book for linguists and others interested in natural languages.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of tables, schemes and diagrams\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Organisation and cross-referencing\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Map\u003cbr\u003e 1. The language and its speakers\u003cbr\u003e 2. Phonology\u003cbr\u003e 3. Word classes\u003cbr\u003e 4. Nominal morphology and noun structure\u003cbr\u003e 5. Noun classes and classifiers\u003cbr\u003e 6. Possession\u003cbr\u003e 7. Case marking and grammatical relations\u003cbr\u003e 8. Number\u003cbr\u003e 9. Further nominal categories\u003cbr\u003e 10. Derivation and compounding\u003cbr\u003e 11. Closed word classes\u003cbr\u003e 12. Verb classes and predicate structure\u003cbr\u003e 13. Valency changing and argument rearranging mechanisms\u003cbr\u003e 14. Tense and evidentiality\u003cbr\u003e 15. Aspect, Aktionsart and degree\u003cbr\u003e 16. Mood and modality\u003cbr\u003e 17. Negation\u003cbr\u003e 18. Serial verb constructions and verb compounding\u003cbr\u003e 19. Complex predicates\u003cbr\u003e 20. Participles and nominalisations\u003cbr\u003e 21. Clause types and other syntactic issues\u003cbr\u003e 22. Subordinate clauses and clause linking\u003cbr\u003e 23. Relative clauses\u003cbr\u003e 24. Complement clauses\u003cbr\u003e 25. Discourse organisation\u003cbr\u003e 26. Issues in etymology and semantics\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Texts\u003cbr\u003e Vocabulary\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Linguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Linguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Linguistics%20%5BCF%5D%22\"\u003eCF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006209642776,"sku":"9780521028868","price":44.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521028868i_7feccdfa-cdde-433e-b239-e9f423b0da1f.jpg?v=1694964817","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-grammar-of-tariana-from-northwest-amazonia-paperback-9780521028868","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}