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What’s in a verb? Studies in the verbal morphology of the languages of the Americas

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Author(s): Grazyna J. Rowicka, Eithne B. Carlin
Series: LOT Occasional Theories
Publisher: LOT
Year: 2006

Language: English
Pages: 261

Cover Page......Page 1
Copyright Info......Page 3
Title Page......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Part I North and Central America......Page 10
Algonquian verb structure: Plains Cree......Page 12
Typological aspects of Lillooet transitive verb inflection......Page 38
Athabascan verb stem structure: Tahltan......Page 62
Valency-changing devices in Metzontla Popoloc......Page 102
Part II South America......Page 128
The vicissitudes of directional affixes in Tarma (Northern Junín) Quechua......Page 130
The verbalizers in Trio (Cariban): a semantic description......Page 152
Verbal number in Itonama......Page 168
Object cross-reference in Leko......Page 180
Stative verbs vs. nouns in Sateré-Mawé and the Tupian family......Page 198
Verbs in Uchumataqu......Page 224
Evidentiality and epistemic mood in Lakondê......Page 244