A grammar sketch and lexicon of Arawak (Lokono Dian)

List of Figures......Page 8
1.2 Previous Studies of Arawak......Page 16
2.1.2 Prefixes and Vowel Cluster Reduction......Page 21
2.1.3 Stress......Page 22
2.3.1.1 Morphological Forms of Personal Pronouns......Page 25
2.3.1.2 Gender, Number, and Humanness in Arawak......Page 26
Figure 6. Demonstrative Pronouns and Adjectives, and Articles......Page 28
2.4.1.3 Event Verb Structure......Page 44
Figure 8. Stative Verb Structure......Page 53
Figure 9. Selected Arawak Postpositions......Page 59
Figure 10. Forms of Locational Postpositions......Page 60
2.6.4 Adverbial and Tense Particles, and Time Words......Page 63
3.1.2 The Quantifier Phrase......Page 65
Figure 13. Event Sentence Structure......Page 74
3.2.2 Dummy Verb Sentences......Page 80
3.2.2.1 The result of fronting......Page 81
Figure 16. Typical Arawak Event Sentence......Page 84
Figure 17: Positions Requiring the Dummy Verb......Page 86
Figure 19. Sentence with Fronted Verb......Page 87
3.2.2.3 Dummy verbs in quotation citations......Page 88
4.4.1 Subject Relativization......Page 103
Figure 22. Object Relativization in Stative Clauses......Page 110
Figure 23. Deep Structure Genres (Longacre 1976:200)......Page 114
5.1.1 Tense, Aspect, or Both?......Page 115
Figure 26. Relative Present in the Past......Page 116
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 11
Part 1 Grammar......Page 14
1 Introduction......Page 15
1.4 Overview......Page 18
2.1.1 Segmentals......Page 20
2.2 Lexical Classes and Morphology......Page 23
2.3.1 Personal Pronouns......Page 24
2.3.2 Demonstrative Pronouns and Adjectives, and Articles......Page 27
2.3.3.1 Inalienable and Alienable Nouns......Page 29
2.3.3.2 Gender in Nouns......Page 30
2.3.3.3 Number in Nouns......Page 31
2.3.4.1 Event Verb + -koana......Page 33
2.3.4.4 Noun Quantifier + -li, -ro, -ninon, -be......Page 34
2.3.4.6 Verb + -thi, -tho, or -sia......Page 35
2.4 Verbs......Page 36
2.4.1.1 Event Verb Stem Forms......Page 37
2.4.1.2 Event Verb Classes......Page 43
2.4.1.4 Derived Event Verbs......Page 50
2.4.2 Stative Verbs......Page 51
2.4.2.1 Stative Verb Structure......Page 52
2.4.2.2 Derived Stative Verbs......Page 54
2.4.3.1 The Dummy Verb......Page 55
2.5.1 The Lexical Status of Postpositions......Page 57
2.5.3 Abbreviations, Compounds, and Suffixes......Page 58
2.6.2 Conjunctions......Page 61
2.6.3 Numerals......Page 62
3 Noun Phrase and Sentence Syntax......Page 64
3.1.4 Pre-Head Relative Clauses......Page 66
3.1.5 The Head of the Noun Phrase......Page 70
3.1.6 Post-Head Relative Clauses......Page 72
3.2.1 Event Sentences......Page 73
3.2.1.1 The ‘COMP’ Position......Page 76
3.2.1.2 The TOPIC Position......Page 78
3.2.2.2 Manner adverbials versus time and locative phrases......Page 83
3.2.2.4 The subject of dummy verb sentences......Page 90
3.2.3.1 Equative and attributive sentences......Page 91
3.2.3.2 Stative sentences with stative verbs......Page 92
4.1 Differences in Pre- and Post-Head Relative Clauses......Page 96
4.2 Free Relative Clauses......Page 100
4.3 Embedded Questions......Page 102
4.4.3 Indirect Object Relativization......Page 104
4.4.4.1 Postposition stranding......Page 105
4.4.4.2 Strategies to avoid postposition stranding......Page 108
5 Aspectual Particles and the Contributionof Discourse to Arawak Syntax......Page 113
5.2 Tense/Aspect in Narrative Discourse......Page 119
5.2.1 Foreground and Background Information......Page 121
5.2.2 Other Kinds of Information in a Discourse......Page 122
5.2.3 Tension in a Narrative and Tense/Aspect......Page 123
6.1 Summary......Page 127
6.2 Areas Needing Further Research......Page 128
Part 2 Lexicon......Page 130
A Short Lexicon of Suriname Arawak......Page 131
English Index for Lexicon......Page 180
The Bus Trip Story......Page 217
The Jaguar Story......Page 220
The Bomb Story......Page 225
The Tapir Story......Page 229
The Metamorphosis Story......Page 236
Bibliography......Page 240