A grammar of Sochiapan Chinantec [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 3283444
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Foris, David Paul
- Description:
- 607 p.
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Sochiapan Chinantec is a native American tone language spoken in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. A phonemic analysis of Sochiapan Chinantec is given in Chapter 2; and in Chapter 3 various lexical formation strategies are discussed. The complexities of verbal Inflection--changes in the tone, stress, and nucleus--which index the verb for person, tense, motion, mood, aspect, voice, transitivity, direct and inverse cross-referencing, reflexivity, and reciprocity are discussed in Chapter 4. In Chapter 5, there is a description of the Verb Phrase; the structure of the Noun Phrase is explored in Chapter 6; and prepositional phrases are discussed in Chapter 7. The focus of Chapter 8 is the clause. The primary clause constituents include the subject, object, and indirect object, which are discussed with respect to transitivity, split-ergativity, direct and inverse cross-referencing, the passive constructions (including impersonal passives), and the antipassive.
The secondary clause constituents include the benefactive, recipient/source, manner, locative, comitative, temporal, instrumental, illocutionary, and vocative. In Chapter 9, I discuss complex and compound sentences; included are relative clauses, complementation, clauses of purpose, result, cause, conditionals, concessives, substitutives, comparatives, and the coordination of clauses. A description of interrogative constructions is given in Chapter 10, and in Chapter 11, there is a description of illocutionary adverbs and particles which a speaker may use to convey her/his attitude to the proposition and/or the addressee. Lastly, in Chapter 12, the topic-comment construction and the focus strategies are discussed.
- Notes:
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- (UnM)AAI9427462
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-06, Section: A, page: 1545.
- Adviser: Frantisek Lichtenberk.
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Auckland (New Zealand), 1994.
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- Microfiche. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International.
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- The University of Auckland (New Zealand)
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