Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages
Edited by Simon E. Overall, Rosa Vallejos and Spike Gildea
[Typological Studies in Language, 122] 2018. vi, 407 pp.
Simon E. Overall
List of John Benjamins publications for which Simon E. Overall plays a role.
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Subjects Languages of South America | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2019 Parrots, peccaries, and people: Imagery and metaphor in Aguaruna (Chicham) magic songs Creativity in Language, Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., Andrea Hollington, Nico Nassenstein and Anne Storch (eds.), pp. 148–174 | Article
The western margin of the Amazon basin near the modern-day border between Ecuador and Peru is an area of notable linguistic and ethnic diversity, but the indigenous cultures also show considerable similarities, thanks to a long history of contact and mutual influence. One of the cultural traits… read more
2018 Chapter 5. Nonverbal predicates and copula constructions in Aguaruna (Chicham) Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages, Overall, Simon E., Rosa Vallejos and Spike Gildea (eds.), pp. 135–162 | Chapter
This chapter focuses primarily on the formal expression of equative, proper inclusion and attributive relations in Aguaruna, all three of which are encoded as copula clauses. The copula clause involves two arguments that both take nominative case; the copula element may be a full verb, it may be an… read more
2018 Chapter 1. Nonverbal predication in Amazonia: Typological and diachronic considerations Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages, Overall, Simon E., Rosa Vallejos and Spike Gildea (eds.), pp. 1–50 | Chapter
2016 Switch-reference and case-marking in Aguaruna (Jivaroan) and beyond Switch Reference 2.0, Gijn, Rik van and Jeremy Hammond (eds.), pp. 453–472 | Article
The paper describes the switch-reference system of Aguaruna, a Jivaroan language spoken in north Peru. This language has two formally distinct subsystems, one marking canonical same/different subject, the other marking coreference relations involving both subjects and non-subjects. Historical… read more
2014 Clause chaining, switch reference and nominalisations in Aguaruna (Jivaroan) Information Structure and Reference Tracking in Complex Sentences, Gijn, Rik van, Jeremy Hammond, Dejan Matić, Saskia van Putten and Ana Vilacy Galucio (eds.), pp. 309–340 | Article
This paper describes reference tracking strategies in Aguaruna, a Jivaroan language of north Peru. I take a functional and holistic approach to the description, and argue that different types of dependent clauses, tail-head linkage, and some nominalised clauses all function as a unified system of… read more