Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages
Editors
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
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Chapter 1. Nonverbal predication in Amazonia: Typological and diachronic considerationsSimon E. Overall, Rosa Vallejos and Spike Gildea | pp. 1–50
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Part I. Overviews of nonverbal predication in individual languages
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Chapter 2. Nonverbal predication and the nonverbal clause type of Mojeño TrinitarioFrançoise Rose | pp. 53–84
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Chapter 3. Nonverbal predication in Paresi-HalitiAna Paula Brandão | pp. 85–102
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Chapter 4. Nonverbal predication in Kari’nja (Cariban, Suriname)Racquel-María Sapién | pp. 103–134
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Chapter 5. Nonverbal predicates and copula constructions in Aguaruna (Chicham)Simon E. Overall | pp. 135–162
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Chapter 6. To hi or not to hi? Nonverbal predication with and without the copula in Kotiria and Wa’ikhana (East Tukano)Kristine Stenzel | pp. 163–192
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Chapter 7. Between verb and noun: Exploration into the domain of nonverbal predication in Ecuadorian SecoyaAnne Schwarz | pp. 193–216
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Chapter 8. Nonverbal predication in MovimaKatharina Haude | pp. 217–244
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Chapter 9. Nonverbal predication in Ninam (northern Brazil)Gale Goodwin Gómez | pp. 245–260
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Part II. Exploring specific subtypes of nonverbal predicates
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Chapter 10. Locative, existential and possessive predication in the Chaco: Nivaĉle (Mataguayan) and Pilagá (Guaykuruan)Doris L. Payne, Alejandra Vidal and Manuel A. Otero | pp. 263–294
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Chapter 11. Possessive semantic relations and construction types in Kukama-KukamiriaRosa Vallejos | pp. 295–314
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Part III. Diachronic pathways to and from nonverbal predication
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Chapter 12. Constructions with has(a) in WampisJaime Peña | pp. 317–338
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Chapter 13. Evidence for the development of action nominals in Awetí towards ergatively-marked predicatesSabine Reiter | pp. 339–364
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Chapter 14. Reconstructing the copulas and nonverbal predicate constructions in CaribanSpike Gildea | pp. 365–402
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Index | p. 403
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009060: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax