Studies in the Languages of Colombia, 3: 112 - Brossura

Strom, Clay

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0883121816 ISBN 13: 9780883121818

Casa editrice: Summer Inst of Linguistics, 1992

Riassunto

This book is based on a typological/functional perspective which provides an excellent framework for writing a broadly useful, descriptive grammar. Retuarã, is also know as Letuama (Tanimuca-Retuarã, Retuama, Letuhama, Ufaina, Uairã) is a member of the central Tucanoan language family and is closely related to Tanimuca. Though the Retuarã and Tanimuca peoples consider themselves as separate groups, they speak the same language with slight lexical differences. Their location is in widely distributed areas of the Amazon Basin in southeastern Colombia has brought them into contact with other Tucanoan and Arawakan languages resulting in some grammatical variations. Besides a brief phonological sketch and description of various aspects of the Retuarã language, the study presents a detailed discussion of parts of the speech, the noun phrases, case, the verb phrase, adverbs, sentence structure, imperatives, questions, negation, subordination, and various elements of discourse.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Summer Inst of Linguistics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0883121816
• ISBN 13: 9780883121818
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 242