Handbook of Amazonian Languages

533 Pages·1991·90.52 MB·English

by  Desmond C. Derbyshire

Handbook of
Amazonian Languages

Handbook of
Amazonian Languages
Volume 3
edited by
Desmond C. Derbyshire and
Geoffrey K. Pullum
1991
Mouton de Gruyter
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Handbook of Amazonian languages.
Includes bibliographies.
1. Indians of South America — Brazil — Languages.
2. Amazon River Region — Languages. I. Derbyshire,
Desmond C. II. Pullum, Geoffrey K.
PM5151.H36 1986 498 86-12692
ISBN 0-89925-124-2 (v. l ; alk. paper)
ISBN 0-89925-421-7 (v. 2 : alk. paper)
Deutsche Bibliothek Cataloging in Publication Data
Handbook of Amazonian languages / ed. by Desmond C. Der-
byshire and Geoffrey K. Pullum. — Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
NE: Derbyshire, Desmond C. [Hrsg.]
Vol. 3(1991)
ISBN 3-11-012836-5
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PREFACE
With the completion of this third volume of Handbook of Amazonian Languages, we
have published two grammatical survey articles (on Brazilian and Peruvian Arawakan,
in volume 1); one historical-comparative classification article (on Maipuran
(Arawakan), in volume 3); two typological syntactic studies (on Guajajara (Tupian)
and Yagua (Yaguan), in volume 1), and substantial grammatical descriptions of eight
languages: Apalai (Cariban; volume 1), Canela-Kraho (Ge; volume 1), Macushi
(Cariban; volume 3), Paumari (Arawan; volume 3), Pirahä (Muran; volume 1),
Sanuma (Yanomaman; volume 2), Urubu-Kaapor (Tupian; volume 1), and Yagua
(Yaguan; volume 2).
We believe it to be vitally important that this list should be lengthened
while access to the remaining Amazonian languages is still possible. We are
becoming aware of an increasing number of Amazonian languages on which
important descriptive work is being done. The materials we have brought
together in the Handbook of Amazonian Languages represents only the beginning
of the effort that is needed to document the linguistic richness of Amazonia.
The production of the Handbook of Amazonian Languages has been aided
by the efforts of a number of people whose contributions the editors would
like to acknowledge. To begin with, we must pay tribute to the energy and
dedication of the fourteen scholars who have worked with us on the thirteen
chapters in the three volumes: Miriam Abbott, Donald M. Borgman, Shirley
Chapman, Daniel L. Everett, Carl Harrison, James Kakumasu, Edward Koehn,
Sally Koehn, David Payne, Doris L. Payne, Thomas E. Payne, Jack Popjes,
Jo Popjes, and Mary Ruth Wise. Without their energies and dedication we
could never have even begun this project. With their assistance we have been
able to improve substantially the extent to which descriptions of Amazonian
languages are available to the community of researchers in general linguistics.
The credit for this is theirs.
In addition, we would like to recognize the crucial help and support we
have had from the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL). Most of the authors
named above whose work appears in this work have had some connection
with SIL's Bible translation and linguistic research enterprise in South America.
Much of the work of preparing this volume, and all of the typesetting work
for the three volumes, was done at cost in SIL's facilities at the International
Linguistics Center, Dallas, Texas. The typesetting work was capably directed
by Ms. Kay Harper. Dr. William Merrifield, Coordinator of SIL's Academic
Publications, generously supported and assisted this project on the strength of
the academic importance he saw in it, even when it took resources away from
other endeavors or involved him in negotiations and complications that he
could have done without.
vi Derbyshire and Pullum
Our collaboration on the editorial task has been a long-distance one, split
between Texas and California (and sometimes other places when Derbyshire
was travelling, among them Oregon, North Dakota, England, and Brazil), Some
of our travel has been supported by the Syntax Research Center at the
University of California, Santa Cruz; also helpful in permitting our joint work
were NSF grant number BNS-8617854, NEH grant number RX-20870-87, and
the University of Oregon Foundation in support of the Working Conference
on Amazonian Languages at Eugene, Oregon, in August 1987.
Finally, we acknowledge our respective spouses, Grace Derbyshire and Joan
Pullum, who uncomplainingly tolerated the domestic impacts of our various
absences and presences as we travelled to each other's home institutions and
stayed at each other's houses during work on the project, and persistently
talked Amazonian linguistics at the dinner table. Our thanks to both of them.
Volume 3
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CONTENTS
Preface v
Map of South America viii
Abbreviations xi
Introduction l
Desmond C. Derbyshire and Geoffrey K. Pullum
Part I: Grammatical Sketches
Outline of contents for grammatical Sketches 21
Macushi 23
Miriam Abbott
Paumarf 161
Shirley Chapman and Desmond C. Derbyshire
Part II: Maipuran (Arawakan) Classification
A Classification of Maipuran (Arawakan) Languages Based on
Shared Lexical Retentions , 355
David L. Payne
Cumulative Index to Volumes 1-3 501
Chris Barker and Geoffrey K. Pullum