Maku : A Comprehensive Grammar (Hardcover)

Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Symbols CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS OF MAKU 1.1.1 The use of Maku in the Wider Pre- and Post-contact Context 1.1.2 Language contact 1.2 DATA SOURCES AND THE MAKU DATABASE 1.2.1 Sinfronio’s idiolect 1.3 ORGANIZATION OF THE GRAMMAR CHAPTER 2 PHONOLOGY 2.1 CONSONANTS 2.1.1 Phonological alternations affecting consonants 2.1.2 Consonant distribution 2.2 VOWELS 2.2.1 Phonological alternations affecting vowels 2.2.2 Vowel distribution 2.3 SYLLABLE STRUCTURE 2.4 STRESS ASSIGNMENT CHAPTER 3 MORPHOLOGY PART I: WORD CLASSES AND INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY 3.1 NOUNS 3.1.1 Number 3.1.2 Case 3.1.3 Possession 3.2 PRONOUNS 3.2.1 Personal pronouns 3.2.2 Demonstrative pronouns 3.2.3 Interrogative pronouns 3.2.4 Indefinite pronouns 3.3 QUANTIFIERS 3.3.1 Numbers 3.3.2 Indefinite quantifiers 3.4 POSTPOSITIONS 3.5 VERBS 3.5.1 Agreement 3.5.2 Tense-aspect-mood-evidentiality 3.5.3 Suppletion 3.6 ADVERBS 3.7 CONJUNCTIONS, INTERJECTIONS, IDEOPHONES, AND LEXICALIZATION CHAPTER 4 MORPHOLOGY PART II: DERIVATIONAL MORPHOLOGY AND COMPOUNDS 4.1 DERIVATIONAL MORPHEMES 4.1.1 Diminutive -taka 4.1.2 Approximative -dakaja 4.1.3 Limitation suffix -mu 4.1.4 Verbal noun -na 4.1.5 Desiderative/negative desiderative suffixes 4.1.6 Bereavement 4.1.7 Circular-motion suffix -liku and circumventing-motion suffix -dakana 4.1.8 Valency-adjusting ku- 4.1.9 Reduplication 4.1.10 -ema 4.1.11 Allative -le 4.2 STEM COMPOUNDS 4.2.1 Idiomatic noun phrases 4.3 FLUIDITY OF GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES CHAPTER 5 SYNTAX 5.1 CONSTITUENT PHRASES AND DECLARATIVE CLAUSES 5.1.1 Phrases 5.1.2 Declarative clause types 5.2 IMPERATIVE CLAUSES 5.3 INTERROGATIVE CLAUSES 5.3.1 Constituent questions 5.3.2 Polarity questions 5.4 COMPLEX SENTENCES 5.4.1 Coordination 5.4.2 Subordination 5.5 INFORMATION STRUCTURE 5.5.1 Ellipsis 5.5.2 Focus positions and the clitic =ke 5.5.3 Particles etsiwa and ijani CHAPTER 6 TYPOLOGICAL SIMILARITIES CHAPTER 7 TEXTS 7.1 THE OPOSSUM AND THE TURTLE 7.2 BUCHA AND MAKUNAIMA 7.3 MENIWA 7.4 FLOOD 7.5 MALOAKA CHAPTER 8 GLOSSARIES 8.1 MAKU-ENGLISH-PORTUGUESE GLOSSARY 8.2 ENGLISH-MAKU WORD LIST REFERENCES INDEX