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A Grammar of Murui (Bue)

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In A Grammar of Murui (Bue), Katarzyna Wojtylak provides the first complete description of Murui, an endangered Witotoan language, spoken by the Murui-Muina (Witoto) people from Colombia and Peru. ...
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  • 15 October 2020
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In A Grammar of Murui (Bue), Katarzyna Wojtylak provides the first complete description of Murui, an endangered Witotoan language, spoken by the Murui-Muina (Witoto) people from Colombia and Peru. The grammar is written from a functional and typological perspective, using natural language data gathered during several fieldtrips to the Caquetá-Putumayo region between 2013 and 2017. The many remarkable characteristics of Murui include a complex system of classifiers, differential subject and object marking, person-marking verb morphology, evidential and epistemic marking, head-tail linkage, and a system of numerals, including the fraternal (brother-based) forms for ‘three’ and ‘four’. The grammar represents an important contribution to the study of Witotoan languages, linguistic typology of Northwest Amazonia, and language contact in the area.
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Price: $215.00
Pages: 592
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Publication Date: 15 October 2020
ISBN: 9789004411111
Format: Hardcover
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Katarzyna I. Wojtylak, Ph.D. (2017), James Cook University, is an Adjunct Researcher at that university, and a Teaching and Research Fellow at the University of Regensburg. She has been researching the Murui language since 2010.