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Hierarchical Alignment in Movima
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A Grammar of Movima
The first comprehensive grammatical description of Movima, a seriously endangered, unclassified indigenous language of Amazonian Bolivia. It comprises phonology,... -
Reference and predication in Movima
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'She kisses her late husband' = 'she kissed her husband': nominal tense marki...
Movima (isolate, Amazonian Bolivia) has no verbal tense morphology. Unlike other tenseless languages, Movima does not recur to mood or aspect morphology, but instead... -
Movima phasal verbs
Phasal verbs in Movima (isolate, lowland Bolivia) are verbs with a bipartite stem denoting the beginning or end of a process or event. The first part of the stem, a... -
Referring to states and events
Complement and adverbial clauses in Movima (unclassified, Bolivia) are referential phrases that function as main-clause arguments or adjuncts. Unlike main clauses,... -
Tense marking on dependent nominals in Movima
In Movima (isolate, Amazonian Bolivia), tense, aspect and mood are not marked on verbs, but encoded by particles. Tense is furthermore encoded by referential elements,... -
Ergativity, Valency and Voice
This volume is a collection of articles concerned with the typology of valency and valence change in a large and diversified sample of languages that display ergative... -
Undergoer orientation in Movima
This article explores the system of verbal voice morphemes in Movima (unclassified, Amazonian Bolivia) and seeks to explain why most transitive main clauses in Movima... -
Clause structure and alignment in Movima
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Review of Guillaume, Antoine: A Grammar of Cavineña.
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Lexical categorization in Muinane : Colombian Amazon
The objective of this doctoral thesis is to approach the culture of the Muinane people through their history and language. We describe some ethnographic and historical... -
Los generolectos del mojeño
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