Word Formation in South American Languages
Edited by Swintha Danielsen, Katja Hannss and Fernando Zúñiga
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 163] 2014. v, 228 pp.
Swintha Danielsen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Swintha Danielsen plays a role.
Title
Subjects Languages of South America | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2014 Productive compounding in Baure (Arawakan) Word Formation in South American Languages, Danielsen, Swintha, Katja Hannss and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 79–112 | Article
The Baure language (Arawakan) can be described as polysynthetic, agglutinating, head-marking, and classifying. Verbs are the most complex parts of speech, with various levels of derivational and inflectional morphology. Baure nouns are involved in fewer morphological processes, such as number and… read more
2014 Introduction and acknowledgments Word Formation in South American Languages, Danielsen, Swintha, Katja Hannss and Fernando Zúñiga (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
The term ‘word formation’ is ambiguous in modern linguistics. In one usage of the term, it is equivalent to ‘morphology’ and refers to matters such as affixation and reduplication as used in the creation of words. In the more widely accepted sense of the term, word formation refers to the creation… read more
2011 Clause embedding strategies in Baure (Arawakan) Subordination in Native South American Languages, Gijn, Rik van, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken (eds.), pp. 79–108 | Article
This article is a survey of clause linking strategies in the South Arawakan language Baure. Since both coordinate and subordinate adjoined clauses are similar to main clauses, the major focus of the paper is on embedded clauses. Embedded clauses, which are formed by means of nominalization of the… read more