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Pre-Historical Language Contact in Peruvian Amazonia: A dynamic approach to Shawi (Kawapanan)
Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia
[Contact Language Library 58] 2021
► pp. 43–132

Chapter 3
A short gramar of Shawi

Article outline
  • 3.1Introduction
    • 3.1.1Structure
  • 3.2Languages, language varieties and speaker profiles
    • 3.2.1Dialectology and “family tree” structure
    • 3.2.2Glottonyms
      • Chaya-huita
  • 3.3Grammatical profile
  • 3.4Phonology
    • 3.4.1Phonemes
      • 3.4.1.1Details on pronunciation of consonants
        • Obstruents
        • Nasals
        • Tap
          • Neutralisation of ɾ in Shawi
        • Glides
      • 3.4.1.2Acoustic analysis of vowels
    • 3.4.2Syllable structure
    • 3.4.3Processes
  • 3.5Orthography
  • 3.6Open word classes
    • 3.6.1Nouns
      • 3.6.1.1Noun derivation
      • 3.6.1.2Noun inflection
        • 3.6.1.2.1Possessive markers
      • 3.6.1.3Oblique case system
      • 3.6.1.4The noun phrase
    • 3.6.2Verbs
      • 3.6.2.1Common morphological processes
        • Object forms and copula construction
        • Negation
      • 3.6.2.2Compound verbs and serial verbs
      • 3.6.2.3Associated motion and related phenomena
  • 3.7Closed word classes
    • 3.7.1Adjectives
    • 3.7.2Pronouns
      • Unbound personal pronouns
      • Interrogative pronouns
    • 3.7.3Deictics
    • 3.7.4Numerals
      • 3.7.4.1Numeral classifiers
    • 3.7.5Adverbs
      • Place adverbs
      • Time adverbs
      • Modal adverbs
      • Quantity adverbs
    • 3.7.6Conjunctions
    • 3.7.7Interjections
  • 3.8Major morpho-syntactic processes
    • 3.8.1Valency changing operations
  • 3.8.2Nominalisation
    • 3.8.2.1Strong nominalisations
    • 3.8.2.2Weak nominalisations
  • 3.8.3Grammatical relations and alignment
    • 3.8.3.1Case marking in Shawi
      • Word order variation
      • Omission of the O-NP
      • Contrastive focus
    • 3.8.3.2Participant reference marking in Shawi
  • 3.8.4Discourse elements
  • Notes