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A grammar of Murui (Bue) : a Witotoan language from Northwest Amazonia

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In A Grammar of Murui (Bue), Katarzyna Wojtylak provides the first complete description of Murui, an endangered Witotoan language, spoken by the Murui-Muina (Witoto) people from Colombia and Peru. The grammar is written from a functional and typological perspective, using natural language data gathered during several fieldtrips to the Caquetá-Putumayo region between 2013 and 2017. The many remarkable characteristics of Murui include a complex system of classifiers, differential subject and object marking, person-marking verb morphology, evidential and epistemic marking, head-tail linkage, and a system of numerals, including the fraternal (brother-based) forms for 'three' and 'four'. The grammar represents an important contribution to the study of Witotoan languages, linguistic typology of Northwest Amazonia, and language contact in the area

Author(s): Katarzyna I. Wojtylak
Series: Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2021

Language: English
Pages: 591
City: Leiden
Tags: Witotoan, Murui, Caqueta Putumayo, Northwest Amazonia, Amazon, lingusitic area, linguistic diffusion, grammar, Linguists and anthropologists interested in typology, endangered languages, descriptive linguistics, historical change, sociolinguistics, language contact, Witotoan languages, Amazonian languages, indigenous languages of the Americas