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 InfoLEIDEN ; BOSTON : BRILL, 2013.
Description467 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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SeriesBrill'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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2012042950
ISBN9789004228214 (hardback)

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