A Grammar of Mapuche

Ineke Smeets

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2008

A Grammar of Mapuche

Ineke Smeets

Volume 41 in the series Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110211795

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About this book

Mapuche is the language of the Mapuche (or Araucanians), the native inhabitants of central Chile. The Mapuche language, also called Mapudungu, is spoken by about 400,000 people in Chile and 40,000 in Argentina. The Mapuche people, estimated at about one million, constitute the majority of the Chilean indigenous population. The history of the Mapuche is the story of passionate fighters who managed to stop the Inca's but succumbed to the Spanish invaders after two and a half century of warfare.
The relationship of the Mapuche language with other Amerindian languages has not yet been established. Mapuche is a highly agglutinative language with a complex verbal morphology.
This book offers a comprehensive and detailed description of the Mapuche language. It contains a grammar (phonology, morphology and syntax), a collection of texts (stories, conversations and songs) with morphological analyses and free translations, and a Mapuche-English dictionary with a large number of derivations and examples. The grammar is preceded by a socio-historical sketch of the Mapuche people and a brief discussion of previous studies of the Mapuche language. The material for the description was collected by the author with the help of five Mapuche speakers with attention to the dialectal differences between them. The abundance of thoroughly analysed examples makes for a lively decription of the language. The intricacy of the verbal morphology will arouse the interest not only of those who practice Amerindian linguistics but also of those who are interested in language theory and language typology.

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Ineke Smeets, St-Martensvoeren, Belgium.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Abbreviations and Conventions Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Part I. INTRODUCTION
Map 1: Topographic map of central Chile Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Mapuche people Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. The Mapuche language Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
3. This grammar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Part II. PHONOLOGY AND MORPHOPHONOLOGY
4. Phonemes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
5. Phonemic structure of roots, suffixes and words Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
6. Distribution of phonemes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
7. Stress Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
8. Morphophonology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
9. Loans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Part III. MORPHOLOGY AND MORPHOSYNTAX OF THE NOUN
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11. Adjectives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
12. Adverbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
13. Numerals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
14. Demonstrative and anaphoric pronouns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
15. Personal pronouns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
16. Possessive pronouns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
17. Interrogative pronouns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
18. Suffixation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
19. Compounding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
20. Reduplication Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
21. Verbalization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Part IV. NOUN PHRASES AND NOMINAL SENTENCES
22. Simple noun phrase Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
23. Complex noun phrase Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
24. Nominal sentences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Part V. MORPHOLOGY AND MORPHOSYNTAX OF THE VERB
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26. Slots Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
27. Unnumbered suffixes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
28. Derivational nominalizers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
29. Compounding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
30. Deictic verbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
31. Defective verbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Part VI. PARTICLES
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Part VII. FURTHER NOTES ON SYNTAX
33. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
34. Word order Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
35. Coordination and subordination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Appendix. PARADIGMS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Part VIII. TEXTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
Part IX. DICTIONARY MAPUCHE - ENGLISH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	489
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	581
Contents of the CD Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	589

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers and Advanced Students of Amerindian Linguistics, Language Theory and Language Typology; Libraries; Academic Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 20
- Main content: 587
Keywords: Chile/languages; grammars

eBook

Published: December 10, 2008
ISBN: 9783110211795