A Reference Grammar of Kotiria (Wanano)
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A Reference Grammar of Kotiria (Wanano)

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A Reference Grammar of Kotiria (Wanano)

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Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

This volume is the first descriptive grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), a member of the eastern Tukanoan language family spoken in the Vaupes River basin of Colombia and Brazil in the northwest Amazon rain forest. The Kotirias, who have lived in this remote region for more than seven hundred years, participate in the complex Vaupés social system, characterized by long-standing linguistic and cultural interaction. The Kotirias remained relatively isolated from the dominant societies until the early part of the twentieth century, when increasing outside influence in the region triggered rapid social and linguistic change. Today the Kotirias number only about sixteen hundred people, and their language, though still used in traditional communities, is in risk of becoming endangered.

Kristine Stenzel draws on eight years of intensive work with the Kotirias to promote, record, and revitalize their language. Working with dozens of native speakers and drawing on numerous oral narratives and written texts, this book is the first comprehensive study of this endangered language and one of the few reference grammars of this language family.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780803265424
Topic
History
Subtopic
Latin American & Caribbean History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of tables
  8. List of figures and maps
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Abbreviations used in glosses
  12. Abbreviations for example sources
  13. Format of examples and texts
  14. 1: The Kotiria and their language
  15. 2: Phonology
  16. 3: Words
  17. 4: Noun classes and noun formation
  18. 5: Nominal morphology
  19. 6: Noun phrases
  20. 7: Verbal semantics and serialization processes
  21. 8: Nonroot stem morphemes in the verb
  22. 9: Clause modality
  23. 10: Clause structure
  24. 11: Complex sentences
  25. Appendix 1: Texts
  26. Appendix 2: Vocabulary
  27. References
  28. Index