A Grammar of Murui (Bue)

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-41111-1
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 592 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1025 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

In A Grammar of Murui (Bue), Katarzyna Wojtylak provides the first complete description of Murui, an endangered Witotoan language, spoken by the Murui-Muina (Witoto) people from Colombia and Peru. The grammar is written from a functional and typological perspective, using natural language data gathered during several fieldtrips to the Caquetá-Putumayo region between 2013 and 2017. The many remarkable characteristics of Murui include a complex system of classifiers, differential subject and object marking, person-marking verb morphology, evidential and epistemic marking, head-tail linkage, and a system of numerals, including the fraternal (brother-based) forms for ‘three’ and ‘four’. The grammar represents an important contribution to the study of Witotoan languages, linguistic typology of Northwest Amazonia, and language contact in the area.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wojtylak, Katarzyna

Wojtylak, Katarzyna I.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Über Autor(innen)

Katarzyna I. Wojtylak, Ph.D. (2017), James Cook University, is an Adjunct Researcher at that university, and a Teaching and Research Fellow at the University of Regensburg. She has been researching the Murui language since 2010.