Tariana, an Arawak Language from North-West Amazonia
Abstract Tariana, the only Arawak language spoken in the Vaupés River Basin linguistic area, has developed numerous polysynthetic patterns, as a result of areal diffusion neighbouring East Tucanoan languages. Tariana is spoken in a situation of obligatory societal multilingualism, based on linguisti...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199683208.013.41 2024-09-15T17:36:23+00:00 Tariana, an Arawak Language from North-West Amazonia Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199683208.013.41 https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/40413/chapter/347388291 en eng Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis page 713-734 ISBN 0199683204 9780199683208 9780191842382 book-chapter 2017 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199683208.013.41 2024-07-01T04:19:31Z Abstract Tariana, the only Arawak language spoken in the Vaupés River Basin linguistic area, has developed numerous polysynthetic patterns, as a result of areal diffusion neighbouring East Tucanoan languages. Tariana is spoken in a situation of obligatory societal multilingualism, based on linguistic exogamy. Special features of Tariana shared with other polysynthetic languages include variable order of morphemes, ‘recursive affixing’ (similar to Eskimo-Aleut languages), templatic structures of nouns and verbs, and multiple serial verb constructions which behave as single word structures with respect to derivational processes. Most of these patterns are absent from Baniwa and other closely related Arawak languages, and also from one of the two extant dialects of Tariana under strong influence from Baniwa. Book Part aleut eskimo* Eskimo–Aleut Oxford University Press 713 734 |
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Abstract Tariana, the only Arawak language spoken in the Vaupés River Basin linguistic area, has developed numerous polysynthetic patterns, as a result of areal diffusion neighbouring East Tucanoan languages. Tariana is spoken in a situation of obligatory societal multilingualism, based on linguistic exogamy. Special features of Tariana shared with other polysynthetic languages include variable order of morphemes, ‘recursive affixing’ (similar to Eskimo-Aleut languages), templatic structures of nouns and verbs, and multiple serial verb constructions which behave as single word structures with respect to derivational processes. Most of these patterns are absent from Baniwa and other closely related Arawak languages, and also from one of the two extant dialects of Tariana under strong influence from Baniwa. |
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