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A view from the North: genders and classifiers in Arawak languages of north-west Amazonia
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Possessive classifiers in Zamucoan
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This chapter discusses noun categorization devices in Zamucoan languages (Ayoreo, Chamacoco, and the extinct Old Zamuco), spoken in the Northern Chaco lowlands of South America. It focuses on two categorization devices: (i) a small gender system with masculine/feminine distinction; and (ii) possessive classifiers. The chapter demonstrates that Zamucoan languages display different structures involving the use of possessive classifiers, which agree in gender and number with the possessed. In addition, classifiers mark another grammatical system, the so-called ‘form’, which distinguishes between predicative and argument function of the NP, and, within the argument, between specific and non-specific referent. The chapter concludes that the interaction of classifiers with this peculiar system, and their agreement in gender and number with the possessed, are rare features related to their nominal origin. The chapter suggests that possessive classifiers could be an areal feature of Chaco languages, shared with the Guaycuruan and Mataguayan languages, which also mark gender and number on classifiers.
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URL: https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/60956/1/Possessive_classifiers_in_Zamucoan.pdf
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Documenting ritual songs: Best practices for preserving the ambiguity of Alto Perené (Arawak) shamanic pantsantsi ‘singing’
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Documenting ritual songs: Best practices for preserving the ambiguity of Alto Perené (Arawak) shamanic pantsantsi ‘singing’
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International functions of lip funneling gesture: a case study of Northern Kampa Arawaks of Peru
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Contrastive focus-marking and nominalization in Northern Kampa (Arawak) of Peru
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Language-specific resources in talk: a study of epistemic stance coding in Alto Perene (Arawak) agreements
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An ethnography of the standardization reform: a case of policy-making in the context of the Upper Perené Arawak community of Peru
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Nominal and verbal temporal morphology in Ashéninka Perené (Arawak)
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Upper Perené Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape and Ritual
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Expression of information source meanings in Ashéninca Perené (Arawak)
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