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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-4622. Thu Dec 05 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875. Subject: 30.4622, Books: A Grammar of Araona: Dixon (ed.), Emkow Moderator: Malgorzata E. Cavar ([email protected]) Student Moderator: Jeremy Coburn Managing Editor: Becca Morris Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Everett Green, Sarah Robinson, Peace Han, Nils Hjortnaes, Yiwen Zhang, Julian Dietrich Jobs: [email protected] | Conferences: [email protected] | Pubs: [email protected] Homepage: http://linguistlist.org Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at: https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/ Editor for this issue: Jeremy Coburn <[email protected]> ================================================================ Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 22:37:49 From: Ulrich Lueders [[email protected]] Subject: A Grammar of Araona: Dixon (ed.), Emkow Title: A Grammar of Araona Series Title: Outstanding grammars from Australia 19 Publication Year: 2019 Publisher: Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom-shop.eu Book URL: lincom-shop.eu/OGFAUS-19-Grammar-of-Araona/en Author: Carola Emkow Editor: RMW Dixon Hardback: ISBN: 9783862889969 Pages: 620 Price: Europe EURO 184.00 Abstract: This book is a comprehensive grammar of the language of the Araona, a Tacana language spoken in lowland Bolivia (Amazonia) by about 140 people. Their history, traditional beliefs, and current situation is presented in the introductory chapter followed by an typological introduction to the language. Araona is an agglutinative, predominantly suffixing, and mildly polysynthetic language. Its phonology is characterized by a relatively simple phoneme inventory with complicated rules for stress assignment. Nouns and pronouns inflect for number (singular, dual and plural) and case. Relational nouns can indicate part-whole relationships and also location. Verbal categories include tense, mood, modality, evidentiality, aspect, directionals and posturals. Verbal categories can be divided into core verbal and non-core verbal categories. The grammar covers most aspects of the language, with special attention to its typologically unusual features, such as case system, simple and complex predicates involving auxiliaries and transitivity agreement, and the system of personal pronouns and demonstratives based on clan division. A vocabulary list as well as four illustrative texts, supplied with morpheme-per-morpheme gloss, and free translations, are given in the appendix. Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation Typology Written In: English (eng) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=139993 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *************************** LINGUIST List Support *************************** The 2019 Fund Drive is under way! Please visit https://funddrive.linguistlist.org to find out how to donate and check how your university, country or discipline ranks in the fund drive challenges. Or go directly to the donation site: https://iufoundation.fundly.com/the-linguist-list-2019 Let's make this a short fund drive! Please feel free to share the link to our campaign: https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/ ---------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-30-4622 ---------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ LINGUIST mailing list, Settings and Unsubscribe at: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/mailman/listinfo/linguist