Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-461) and index.
Contents:
Introduction-The Language and Its Speakers -- Phonology and Morphophonology -- Nouns and Nominals -- Nominal Derivation and "Possessive" Denominalization -- Modification -- The Morphosyntax of the Verb: Organizing Principles -- Verb Stem Derivation -- Past-Perfective Aspect Constructions -- Non-Pastperfective Aspect Constructions -- Minority Class Verbs -- Noun Phrase Structure -- Adpositional Phrases and Oblique Constituents -- Copula Constructions -- Voice and Valence -- Knowing and Not Knowing: Epistemic and Negative Categories -- Commands and the Expression of Deontic Modality -- Questions -- Complementation -- Adverbial and Medial Clauses -- Relative Clauses.
Series:
Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 1876-5580 ; v. 5
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