Negation in Arawak Languages
Published on 13. March 2014
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-90-04-25701-6 (ISBN)
Description
Negation in Arawak Languages presents detailed descriptions of negation constructions in nine Arawak languages (Apurina, Garifuna, Kurripako, Lokono, Mojeno 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.
Informed by typological approaches to negation, this volume will be of interest to specialists in Arawak languages, typologists, historical linguists, and theoretical linguists.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-25701-6 (9789004257016)
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Lev Michael, PhD (2008), is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published articles and monographs on Iquito (Zaparoan), Muniche (isolate), Nanti (Arawak), Omagua (Tupi-Guarani), and other Amazonian languages.
Tania Granadillo, PhD (2006) is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at The University of Western Ontario. She has worked on Indigenous languages of Venezuela since 1996. She is the co-editor of Ethnographic Contributions to the Study of Endangered Languages (2011).
Tania Granadillo, PhD (2006) is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at The University of Western Ontario. She has worked on Indigenous languages of Venezuela since 1996. She is the co-editor of Ethnographic Contributions to the Study of Endangered Languages (2011).