A Carib Grammar and DictionaryMagoria Books, 2008 - 516 páginas The Carib language, sometimes called Galibi or True Carib, is spoken by some 7000 people living in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and Brazil. Henk Courtz's book, originally a Leiden University Ph.D. dissertation, contains a detailed description of Carib grammar and the most extensive inventory of Carib lexemes and affixes so far. The material is of interest to scholars in the fields of linguistic typology, comparative Cariban linguistics, Carib dialects, and to anyone who is curious to know more about the Carib language of South-America. Please visit the publisher's website (www.MagoriaBooks.com) for excerpts and errata. |
Contenido
The Carib language | 1 |
A Carib grammar | 21 |
A Carib dictionary | 205 |
Carib affixes | 441 |
Carib nature words | 449 |
Bibliography | 485 |
Términos y frases comunes
3aml adjective adjectivization adnominal form adverbial form aina alleg Annonaceae Ardeidae bathe become bird sp Carib language Cariban cassava cause oneself ceae coda dialect eastern Surinamese EGVW fish sp free morpheme guianensis he/she/it he/she/it_is interj intransitive irompo jumy kepy kurupi kynkanon Lauraceae lexical unit liana sp lizard sp middle verb mòkaron mòko moro Mosonyi myra myta nàna nopy noun unit one’s oneself Ahlbr palm tree sp pamy phoneme plant sp plur poko poss possc possessive form postp postposition poty pronominal prefixes provide oneself Psittacidae pyra rapa roten say Tprau stress Suriname syllable tamusi terapa Tpru transitive verb tree sp verb forms verb stem verbal vowel w)ai w)yka w)yto wara western Surinamese Carib word unit woto