Retuara Syntax: Studies in the Languages of Colombia 3 (SIL International and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics 112)

Strom, Clay; Strom, Clayton L

ISBN 10: 0883121816 / ISBN 13: 9780883121818

Verlag: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1992

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ria9780883121818_new

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Retuara Syntax: Studies in the Languages of Colombia 3 (SIL International and the University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics 112)
• Verlag: Summer Institute of Linguistics
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0883121816
• ISBN-13: 9780883121818
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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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.