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Author Payne, Thomas Edward, 1951- author.

Title A Typological Grammar of Panare, a Cariban Language of Venezuela / by Thomas E. Payne, Doris L. Payne
Published LEIDEN ; BOSTON : BRILL, 2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas ; 5
Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; 5.
Contents Introduction-The Language and Its Speakers -- 2 Phonology and Morphophonology -- Nouns and Nominals -- Nominal Derivation and "Possessive" Denominalization -- Modification -- The Morphosyntax of the Verb: Organizing Principles -- Verb 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
Summary Panare, also known as E'ñapa Woromaipu, is a seriously endangered Cariban language spoken by about 3,500 people in Central Venezuela. A Typological Grammar of Panare by Thomas E. Payne and Doris L. Payne, is a full length linguistic grammar, written from a modern functional/typological perspective
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Panare language -- Grammar
Panare language -- Syntax
Typology (Linguistics)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Native American Languages.
Language and languages
Typology (Linguistics)
Grammatik
Panare
Panare.
SUBJECT Venezuela -- Languages. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85142679
Subject Venezuela
Venezuela.
Genre/Form Grammatica's (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author Payne, Doris L., 1952- author.
LC no. 2012042950
ISBN 9789004242197
9004242198