Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages
Editors
| University of Otago & James Cook University
| University of New Mexico
| University of Oregon
This volume explores typological variation within nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages. Using abundant data, generally from original and extensive fieldwork on under-described languages, it presents a far more detailed picture of nonverbal predication constructions than previously published grammatical descriptions. On the one hand, it addresses the fact that current typologies of nonverbal predication are less developed than those of verbal predication; on the other, it provides a wealth of new data and analyses of Amazonian languages, which are still poorly represented in existing typologies. Several contributions offer historical insights, either reconstructing the sources of innovative nonverbal predicate constructions, or describing diachronic pathways by which constructions used for nonverbal predication spread to other functions in the grammar. The introduction provides a modern typological overview, and also proposes a new diachronic typology to explain how distinct types of nonverbal predication arise.
[Typological Studies in Language, 122] 2018. vi, 407 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
1–49
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Part I. Overviews of nonverbal predication in individual languages
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53–83
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85–102
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103–134
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135–161
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163–192
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193–216
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217–244
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245–259
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Part II. Exploring specific subtypes of nonverbal predicates
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263–294
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295–313
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Part III. Diachronic pathways to and from nonverbal predication
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318–402
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317–337
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339–363
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365–402
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Index
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403
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Bertinetto, Pier Marco, Luca Ciucci & Margherita Farina
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Subjects
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009060 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax