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A Grammar of Murui (Bue): A Witotoan Language from Northwest Amazonia

A Grammar of Murui (Bue): A Witotoan Language from Northwest Amazonia

I. Wojtylak, Katarzyna

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ISBN10: 9004411119
ISBN13: 9789004411111
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 15 2020
Pages: 592
Weight: 2.25
Height: 1.31 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In A Grammar of Murui (Bue), Katarzyna Wojtylak provides the first complete description of Murui, an endangered Witotoan language, spoken by the Murui-Muina (Witoto) people from Colombia and Peru. The grammar is written from a functional and typological perspective, using natural language data gathered during several fieldtrips to the Caquetá-Putumayo region between 2013 and 2017. The many remarkable characteristics of Murui include a complex system of classifiers, differential subject and object marking, person-marking verb morphology, evidential and epistemic marking, head-tail linkage, and a system of numerals, including the fraternal (brother-based) forms for 'three' and 'four'. The grammar represents an important contribution to the study of Witotoan languages, linguistic typology of Northwest Amazonia, and language contact in the area.

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