A Grammar of Kakataibo

Roberto Zariquiey

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2018

A Grammar of Kakataibo

Roberto Zariquiey

Volume 75 in the series Mouton Grammar Library [MGL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110765816

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Kashibo-Kakataibo is the westernmost Panoan language and, therefore, the one closest to the Andes Mountains. In terms of its typological profile, Kashibo-Kakataibo is a (mainly) postpositional and agglutinating language with a highly synthetic verbal morphology, which includes a highly complex tense system with several markers, some of which also express aspectual meanings. Kashibo-Kakataibo presents a mixed prosodic system, which combines stress and tone features. In addition, like with other Pano languages, Kashibo-Kakataibo exhibits a number of transitivity-related issues of high typological interest. First of all, the language shows an extremely complex system of grammatical relations, which includes tripatite, ergative, accusative, neutral and one horizontal alignment types. In addition, the language exhibits a fascinating interaction between syntactic case and pragmatic function. There are two fixed syntactic classes of verbs: transitive and intransitive. A verb root/base can only change its class by means of explicit morphological derivation (with only 4 ambitransitive verbs in the whole language). As in other Panoan languages, the transitivity class of the main verb is morphologically indicated throughout the clause, by means of complex systems of agreement and harmony (some of which are totally new even from a Panoan perspective)

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Roberto Zariquiey, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Perú.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of maps Publicly Available Download PDF	xxiii
List of tables Publicly Available Download PDF	xxiii
List of figures Publicly Available Download PDF	xxvi
List of abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xxix
1 The Kakataibo people and their language Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Segmental phonology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
3 Prosody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
4 Introduction to morphology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
5 Word classes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
6 Nouns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
7 Adjectives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
8 Verbs (I): Verb classes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
9 Verbs (II): Verbal morphology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
10 Adverbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	358
11 Independent clauses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
12 Switch-reference constructions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
13 Reported speech and elaborative clauses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	453
14 Grammatical nominalizations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
15 Transitivity and grammatical relations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487
16 Sentences in narratives and conversations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	532
Appendix 1: Selection of Kakataibo texts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	566
Appendix 2: Swadesh list of 200 terms for the four extant dialects of Kakatataibo with English and Spanish translations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	587
Appendix 3: Tessmann’s list of 237 terms for the four extant dialects of Kakatataibo with German and Spanish translations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	595
Appendix 4: Kakataibo textual database Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	605
Appendix 5: Brief Kakataibo – English vocabulary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	610
Appendix 6: Index of Kakataibo grammatical morphemes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	631
Photographs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	634
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	640
Index of subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	658
Index of persons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	667

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars interested in Panoan Languages, Linguistic Typology, Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Anthropology
Pages
- Front matter: 30
- Main content: 668
Keywords: Kakataibo; Panoan Languages; Peru; Functional-Typological Approach

eBook

Published: September 10, 2018
ISBN: 9783110765816

Hardcover

Published: September 10, 2018
ISBN: 9783110416350