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List of tables Table 1.1 Sorensen’s classification of Eastern Tukanoan 5 Table 1.2 Classification of the Tukanoan family according to Waltz and Wheeler (1972) and Barnes (1999) 5 Table 1.3 Classification of Tukanoan according to Ramirez 5 Table 2.1 Kotiria consonant phonemes 22 Table 2.2 Kotiria vowel phonemes 23 Table 2.3 Cognates of Kotiria words with initial unaspirated voiceless plosives 28 Table 2.4 Disyllabic roots with word-initial voiceless plosives 29 Table 2.5 CV roots with word-initial voiceless plosives 29 Table 2.6 Kotiria aspiration from deletion of vowel before /h/ 30 Table 2.7 Correspondences between Kotiria [‫]ݹ‬ and Eastern Tukanoan [k] 33 Table 2.8 Further examples of loss of a left-edge syllable in Kotiria 41 Table 2.9 Kotiria CV roots with CVV cognates in Wa’ikhana 42 Table 2.10 Some minimal pairs for nasalization 43 Table 2.11 Kotiria [Ønasal] morphemes 46 Table 2.12 Monomoraic roots with initial L tone 59 Table 2.13 Minimal pairs for glottalization in CVCV roots 59 Table 2.14 Minimal pairs for glottalization in CVV roots 59 Table 2.15 Cognates of Kotiria words with glottal stop coda 61 Table 2.16 Words with LH or LHL melody and no glottal stop 64 Table 2.17 Contrast of glottal stop and preaspiration 67 Table 2.18 Contrasts of suprasegmentals within roots 68 Table 2.19 Characteristics of suprasegmentals 70 Table 3.1 Distribution of morphemes per word in two Kotiria texts 78 Table 3.2 Root shapes 79 Table 3.3 Properties of morphemes 90 Table 4.1 Animate nouns 102 Table 4.2 Inanimates 114 Table 4.3 Personal pronouns 142 Table 5.1 Phonological specification of nominal morphemes 172 Table 6.1 Possessive proclitics 186 xiv List of tables Table 9.1 Clause modality 269 Table 9.2 Kotiria evidentials according to Waltz and Waltz 271 Table 9.3 Subject agreement suffixes for irrealis and nominalized verbs 300 Table 10.1 Arguments and adjuncts 314 Table 10.2 Subject agreement suffixes for irrealis and nominalized verbs 316 Table 10.3 Word order and argument coding in Eastern Tukanoan languages 334 Table 10.4 Marking of adjuncts 346 Table 11.1. Properties of multiple-verb constructions 379 ...

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