A Typological Grammar of Panare, a Cariban Language of Venezuela / By Thomas E. Payne, Doris L. Payne.
| Author/creator | Payne, Thomas Edward, 1951- |
| Other author | Payne, Doris L., 1952- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | LEIDEN ; BOSTON : BRILL, 2013. |
| Description | 467 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas ; 5 |
| Contents | Introduction-The Language and Its Speakers -- 2 Phonology and Morphophonology -- Nouns and Nominals -- Nominal Derivation and "Possessive" Denominalization -- Modification -- The Morphosyntax of the Verb: Organizing Principles -- Verb Derivation - Past-Perfective Aspect Constructions -- Non-Pastperfective Aspect Constructions -- Minority Class Verbs -- Noun Phrase Structure -- Adpositional Phrases and Oblique Constituents -- Copula Constructions - Voice and Valence -- Knowing and Not Knowing: Epistemic and Negative Categories -- Commands and the Expression of Deontic Modality -- Questions -- Complementation -- Adverbial and Medial Clauses -- Relative Clauses. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012042950 |
| ISBN | 9789004228214 (hardback) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |