The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia

• First account of a uniquely complex and unusual language
• Entirely based on field work by the authors

Readership: Linguists and linguistic anthropologists.

R.M.W. Dixon, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University

"A fundamental grammatical description of this sort - complete with glossed texts, dictionary materials, a wealth of diachronic insights, and authoritative social and cultural information about the speakers - might be expected to constitute the crowning achievement in a lifetime of successful effort. For this author, however, it is merely another in a long roster of outstanding linguistic accomplishments that promise to continue unabated." - Edward J Vajda, Western Washington University

1: INTRODUCTION: THE LANGUAGE AND ITS SPEAKERS
2: PHONOLOGY
3: GRAMMATICAL OVERVIEW
4: PREDICATE STRUCTURE - GENERAL
5: PREDICATE STRUCTURE - MISCELLANEOUS SUFFIXES
6: PREDICATE STRUCTURE - THE TENSE-MODAL SYSTEM
7: PREDICATE STRUCTURE - SECONDARY VERBS, MOOD AND NEGATION
8: VERBAL DERIVATIONS - CAUSATIVE AND APPLICATIVE
9: VERBAL REDUPLICATION
10: NOUN PHRASE STRUCTURE
11: POSSESSED NOUNS, AND ADJECTIVES
12: DEMONSTRATIVES AND RELATED FORMS
13: COPULA CLAUSES
14: STRUCTURE OF A VERBAL MAIN CLAUSE
15: COMMANDS AND QUESTIONS
16: A-CONSTRUCTIONS AND O-CONSTRUCTIONS
17: COMPLEMENT CLAUSES
18: DEPENDENT CLAUSES
19: NOMINALISED CLAUSES
20: PERIPHERAL MARKER jaa AND ni-jaa
21: OTHER PERIPHERAL MARKERS
22: THE RELATIONAL NOUN ihi/ehene 'DUE TO, BECAUSE OF'
23: LIST CONSTRUCTIONS
24: SYNTACTIC ORGANISATION
25: WORD CLASS DERIVATIONS
26: TOPICS IN SEMANTICS
27: PREHISTORY