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Negation in Arawak Languages

Negation in Arawak Languages

Michael, Lev
Granadillo, Tania

Hardcover

Indigenous Languages of the AmericasGrammar & Style

ISBN10: 9004257012
ISBN13: 9789004257016
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 13 2014
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Negation in Arawak Languages presents detailed descriptions of negation constructions in nine Arawak languages (Apurinã, Garifuna, Kurripako, Lokono, Mojeño Trinitario, Nanti, Paresi, Tariana, and Wauja), as well as an overview of negation in this major language family. Functional-typological in orientation, each descriptive chapter in the volume is based on fieldwork by authors in the communities in which the languages are spoken. Chapters describe standard negation, prohibitives, existential negation, negative indefinites, and free negation, as well as language-specific negation phenomena such as morphological privatives, the interaction of negation with verbal inflectional categories, and negation in clause-linking constructions.

Informed by typological approaches to negation, this volume will be of interest to specialists in Arawak languages, typologists, historical linguists, and theoretical linguists.

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