Nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages / edited by Simon E. Overall, Rosa Vallejos, Spike Gildea.

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(5th : Amazônicas (Conference) (5th : 2014 : Belém, Brazil) [author.]

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TextSeries: Typological studies in language ; v. 122.Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (vi, 407 pages)Content type:

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9789027264244
9027264244

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages.DDC classification:

498 23

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PM5023 .A43 2014

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Nonverbal predication in Amazonia: Typological and diachronic considerations -- Nonverbal predication and the nonverbal clause type of Mojeño Trinitario -- Nonverbal predication in Paresi-Haliti -- Nonverbal predication in Kari'nja (Cariban, Suriname) -- Nonverbal predicates and copula constructions in Aguaruna (Chicham) -- To hi or no to hi? Nonverbal predication with and without the copula in Kotiria and Wa'ikhana (East Tukano) -- Between verb and noun: exploration into the domain of nonverbal predication in Ecuadorian Secoya -- Nonverbal predication in Movima -- Nonverbal predication in Ninam (northern Brazil) -- Locative, existential and possessive predication in the Chaco: Nivacle (Mataguayan) and Pilaga (Guaykuruan) -- Possessive semantic relations and construction types in Kukama-Kukamiria -- Construction with has(a) in Wampis -- Evidence for the development of action nominals in Aweti towards ergatively-marked predicates -- Reconstructing the copulas and nonverbal predicate constructions in Cariban.

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Consists of 13 articles selected from 32 presentations at a special session on nonverbal predication at the international conference, Amazônicas V, that took place in Belém, Brazil, in May 2014.