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Moseten belongs to the small, unclassified language family Mosetenan and is spoken by roughly 800 people in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes and the adjoining lowland region. This book provides a grammatical description of Moseten in the form of a descriptive reference grammar. It is based on the author's extensive fieldwork in Bolivia and is intended to be comprehensive and aimed at linguists from all backgrounds. Belonging to an unclassified language family, Moseten is of special interest to typologists, historical linguists, contact linguists and South Americanists. The grammar is divided into a chapter on phonology (2.) and six chapters on the morphology: morphological processes (3.) the nominal system (4.), pronouns and reference (5.), adjectives and adverbs (6.), quantification (7.) and the verbal system (8.). These chapters are followed by voice (9.), negation (10.) and modality and discourse markers (11.). Finally, there are two syntactically oriented chapters on clause types (12.) and clause combinations (13.). In the appendix, three types of texts, a list of morphemes, a list of references and further bibliographical notes are added. Furthermore, there is an index. This grammar is the first accessible and comprehensive description of a Mosetenan language.
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Mouton Grammar Library
A Grammar of Mosete´n
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Mouton Grammar Library 33
Editors Georg Bossong Bernard Comrie Matthew Dryer
Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York
A Grammar of Mosete´n
by Jeanette Sakel
Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York
Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton, The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sakel, Jeanette, 1973⫺ A grammar of Mosete´n / by Jeanette Sakel. p. cm. ⫺ (Mouton grammar library ; 33) English and Mosete´n. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 3-11-018340-4 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Mosete´n language ⫺ Grammar. I. Title. II. Series. PM6561.S35 2004 4981.9⫺dc22 2004023226
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5.7.2. The pro-verb jaem 'tye6. Adjectives and adverbs 6.1. Adjectives 6.1.1. Attributively used adjectives 6.1.2. Predicatively used adjectives 6.1.3. The plural forms of adjectives 6.1.4. Manner adverbs deriving from adjectives 6.2. Adverbs turned into adjectives 6.3. Adjectival comparison 6.3.1. The comparative 6.3.2. The superlative 6.4. Adverbs 6.4. l. Place adverbs 6.4.1. l . Place adverbs based on personal pronouns 6.4.1.2. Lexical place adverbs 6.4.2. Temporal adverbs 6.4.3. Manner adverbs 6.4.4. Degree adverbs and adverb comparison 7. Quantification 7.1. Numerals 7.1.1. Cardinal numerals 7.1.2. Ordinal numerals 7.1.3. Other derivations of numerals 7.1.3.1. Reference to time and place 7.1.3.2. Reference to persons or objects 7.1.4. paeren' 'both' 7.1.5. Other expressions of quantity 7.2. Non-numeral quantifiers 7.2.1. raej 'all' 7.2.2. dyai ', maj, ara ',jes 'a lot, much, many' 7.2.3. dyam 'few', 'a little' 7.2.4. pare7 'some', 'aside' 8. The verbal system 8.1. Verbal in