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Title:
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El sistema de clasificación nominal del Miraña
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Author:
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Frank Seifart
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Email:
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Homepage:
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http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~seifart
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Degree Awarded:
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University of the Andes
, Magister en Etnolingüística
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Degree Date:
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2000
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Language Documentation
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Subject Language(s):
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Bora
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Director(s):
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Jon Landaburu
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Abstract:
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This work presents some interesting features of the grammar of the Miraña language, spoken along the Caquetá river, in the department of Amazonas in Colombia. Miraña morphology is agglutinating and there is a richness of derivational and inflectional processes. Miraña has a complex tonal system which manifests itself at various levels of linguistic structure. The most distinctive feature of Miraña grammar - and the major topic of this work - is its system of nominal classification. A large and heterogeneous set of class markers is used to derive nouns and to mark agreement in a variety of morphosyntactic contexts. There is a pervasive variation between the use of two types of class markers: general class markers and specific class markers. It will be argued that the system is in a process of splitting into two systems which correspond to the two types of class markers. It will be shown that the type of system of nominal classification of Miraña - and those of other Amazonian languages - has not been sufficiently taken into account by general typologies of nominal classification so far.
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