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A Grammar of Aguaruna (Iiniá Chicham)

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  • 06 February 2017
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This book is a descriptive grammar of Aguaruna, known to its speakers as Iiniá Chicham, a Jivaroan language spoken by some 55,000 people in the northwest Peruvian Amazon. Aguaruna is typologically and historically significant because of its location in the eastern foothills of the Andes, right between the Andean and Amazonian linguistic areas. Some typologically unusual syntactic phenomena, for example in the areas of grammatical relations and case marking, make this description relevant beyond the areal context. This is the first full grammar of a Jivaroan language, covering phonology, morphology and syntax as well as addressing some issues in discourse structure. It is an important work for specialists in South American languages as well as for linguists working in more general typological fields.

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Price: $187.99
Pages: 652
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter Mouton
Publication Date: 06 February 2017
ISBN: 9783110405576
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: LAN009020 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Morphology, LAN009060 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax
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Simon E. Overall, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.