A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Paperback, New ed)

This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonian jungle. Its speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as a result most people are fluent in five or six languages. Because of this rampant multilingualism, Tariana combines a number of features inherited from the protolanguage with properties diffused from neighbouring but unrelated Tucanoan languages. Typologically unusual features of the language include: an array of classifiers independent of genders, complex serial verbs, case marking depending on the topicality of a noun, and double marking of case and of number. Tariana has obligatory evidentiality: every sentence contains a special element indicating whether the information was seen, heard, or inferred by the speaker, or whether the speaker acquired it from somebody else. This grammar will be a valuable source-book for linguists and others interested in natural languages.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions
Release date:	November 2006
First published:	2003
Authors:	Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Dimensions:	243 x 170 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	732
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-02886-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
LSN:	0-521-02886-8
Barcode:	9780521028868

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