A Reference Grammar of Kotiria (Wanano)

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Index abbreviations, xix–xxi, 457 activity verbs, 206–9, 281 additive, 152, 156–57, 172 adjectival words, 87–88, 194–95, 206, 250–51 adjuncts, 314, 345–56 admonitives, 269, 309, 311–12 adverbial clauses, 148, 315, 318, 319–20 adverbials, 87, 88–89, 222, 225–26, 250, 348, 358–67 adversatives, 269, 309–10 affectedness, 46, 263–64 affricates, 32–34, 44 agent-oriented modality. See deontic modality Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., 121, 298, 306 “Airplanes” (text), 455–56 allophones, 34–36, 38n12, 43–44; orthographic representation, 73. See also nasal allophones Almeida, João Paulo, 452–53 “Amazônia Legal.” See Brazilian Amazonia anaphoric constructions, 143–49, 177, 183 anaphoric particles, 81, 98, 142, 143, 175 animacy, 128–29; and differential object marking, 326–32 Animal Stories. See Let’s Study in Kotiria: Kotiria Animal Stories animates, 99, 101–13, 125–26, 129–30, 342; augmentatives, 155; compounds, 150; derived from verbs, 130–33, 135–36; diminutives, 154; interrogatives and, 192; numbering, 177–79, 182; pronominal, 143–45, 149 Arapaso language, 3n10 Arapaso people, 15 Arawak language group, 10, 11, 17, 93, 100. See also Baniwa language; Tariana language Arawak people, 11–12. See also Baniwa people; Tariana people argument coding, 158–59, 161, 314, 315, 323, 324, 326, 333–37 arguments, locative. See locative arguments assertion, 285–93, 295, 297–98 assertion evidential, imperfective, 269, 285–90 assertion evidential, perfective, 46, 269, 272–74, 285–86 augmentatives, 152, 153, 154–56, 172 Baniwa language, 27–28, 28n6, 100 Baniwa people, 10, 11, 12, 20, 24 Bará language, 3, 4, 5, 7; animate-inanimate distinction, 107; clause structure, 334; locatives, 346; phonology, 24n4, 25, 31, 32, 33, 62; word order and argument coding, 334 Barasana language, 3, 5, 6, 7; animateinanimate distinction, 99, 107; augmentatives, 155; =~be’re counterpart, 356; clause structure, 333, 334; copulas, 199n2; epistemic coding, 295–96n11; evidentials, 276, 283; interrogatives, 307; locatives, 346; phonology, 25, 41n15, 49, 62; possessives, 185; pronouns, 143; verbs, 221, 249; word order and argument coding, 334 %DUQHV-DQHWFODVVL¿FDWLRQRI7XNDQRDQ languages, 4, 5; on hierarchy of categories in Tuyuka, 293–94; on pitch accent, 49; on tense in Tuyuka, 276; on voiceless fricatives, 32 body part nouns, 114, 116, 117, 118, 130, 189 borrowing, lexical, 17, 62, 108n5, 182 Bossong, Georg, 320 Brazilian Amazonia, 1–3 Bybee, Joan, 167 Cabral, Mateus, 380, 381–92 Cabral, Ricardo, 380, 411–50 Capuchins, 13 Index 500 Cararú Cachoeira, 10–11, 12, 14, 282, 381n3 Carib people, 13 causative constructions, 375–76 “The Celebration Day Story” (text), 388–92 Christian missionaries, 8, 13–14 FODVVL¿HUVLQDQLPDWHVZLWK± FODVVL¿HUVVKDSHSeeVKDSHFODVVL¿HUV clausal nominalization, 284–85, 316–19 clause modality, 245, 256, 257, 268–312. See also directive modality; evidentials; interrogatives; irrealis statements; realis statements clauses, adverbial. See adverbial clauses clause structure, 313–79 clitics and cliticization, 74, 80, 81, 92, 93–95, 105, 148, 163; in verbs, 261, 262, 374. See also enclitics; proclitics coding, discourse-level. See discourse-level coding coding, grammatical. See grammatical coding cognates, Eastern Tukanoan, 30, 33, 142–44, 153, 199, 263, 356, 370; locative, 316; nonexistence verbs, 202; Wa’ikhana, 28, 29–30, 33, 42, 61, 199, 229, 310, 317 cognition verbs, 216–17, 219–20 collective animates, 112–13 Colombia, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10–11 comitative/instrumental role, 92, 163–64, 172, 313–14, 346, 353–55; in adverbials, 360; in other Tukanoan languages, 356 common languages. See lingua francas comparison adverbials, 363–65 completive aspect, 237 compound nouns. See noun compounds conjunctions, absence of, 374 consonants, 22, 23–36, 346n6. See also obstruents; plosives; postaspiration; preaspiration; unaspirated consonants contrastive subject, 152, 165–67, 172 convergence of languages. See language convergence copulas, 53, 199–202, 248, 261, 262, 281, 289, 337; in inference construction, 261, 284–85; noun complements of, 86–87 counting. See numbers count nouns, 114, 116–19 Cubeo language. See Kubeo language Cubeo people. See Kubeo people curupiras, 108n5, 110, 404n10 “The Curupira Story” (text), 423–50 “The Curupira Who Went to the Man’s House Wanting to Eat Him” (text), 404–11 dances, 388n5 debuccalization, 26, 27, 346n6 GH¿QLWHQHVV± 330–31, 332, 336 deixis, 136, 142, 145, 147, 175, 338; in evidentials, 293–95; in verbs, 231 demands, 311–12 demonstratives, 81, 90, 136–37, 175 deontic modality, 238–41, 268, 368–69 Derbyshire, Desmond C., 99 derived nouns, 86–88, 105, 115, 121, 130–40, 199, 351. See also nominalized verbs derived verbs, 83...