Amazonian Linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American Languages

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Preface List of Contributors Introduction (Doris L. Payne) I. Historical and Comparative Studies Language History in South America: What We Know and How to Know More (Terrence Kaufman) Some Widespread Grammatical Forms in South American Languages (David L. Payne) Valence-Changing Affixes in Maipuran Arawakan Languages (Mary Ruth Wise) Cross-Referencing Changes in Some Tupi-Guarani Languages (Cheryl Jensen) II. Stress and Pitch-Accent Systems Accent in Aguaruna (David L. Payne) Asheninca Stress Patterns (Judith Payne) III. Morphological Studies Morphological Characteristics of Lowland South American Languages (Doris L. Payne) Noun Classification Systems of Amazonian Languages (Desmond C. Derbyshire and Doris L. Payne) Classifiers in Tuyuca (Janet Barnes) Chiriguano and Guarayo Word Formation (Wolf Dietrich) Incorporation in Nadeb (E. M. Helen Weir) IV. Transitivity and Grammatical Relations Kamaiura (Tupi-Guarani) as an Active-Stative Language (Lucy Seki) You and I = Neither You nor I: The Personal System of Tupinamba (Tupi-Guarani) (Aryon D. Rodrigues) Ergativity and Nominativity in Kuikuro and Other Carib Languages (Bruna Franchetto) Transitivity and Ergativity in Panare (Thomas E. Payne) V. Morphosyntax in Its Wider Context The Positioning of Non-pronominal Clitics and Particles in Lowland South American Languages (Robert A. Dooley) The Non-modal Particles of the Carib Language of Surinam and Their Influence on Constituent Order (Berend J. Hoff) Cause and Reason in Nambiquara (Ivan Lowe )