Uchumataqu: The Lost Language of the Urus of Bolivia : a Grammatical Description of the Language as Documented Between 1894 and 1952CNWS Publications, 2008 - 303 sivua This book is the first comprehensive grammatical description of Uchumataqu, the language of the Uru of Lake Titicaca in north-western Bolivia. Uchumataqu forms part of the isolated language family Uru-Chipaya but has been influenced to differing degrees by Aymara, Quechua, and Spanish. The Uchumataqu language became extinct around 1950. Although several researchers had documented the language during the first half of the twentieth century, much of the material remained unstudied. This book is the first to take into consideration every previous study of the Uchumataqu language. The grammatical description is based on former publications and archive material and seeks to describe Uchumataqu as comprehensively as possible. It includes a description of the phonological system of Uchumataqu as well as a presentation of its morphological processes. The nominal and verbal systems are discussed in detail. Particular attention is paid to the complex person-marking system of Uchumataqu, of which person-marking clitics are a vital part that distinguishes Uchumataqu from the neighbouring Aymara and Quechua language. Another important issue are nominalisation and subordination strategies as well as adjectives which form a word class of its own. The relationship of Uchumataqu with the surrounding Aymara and Quechua language, and particularly the way in which influence on Uchumataqu was exerted, are described in detail. The appendices contain a transcription of the afore unpublished manuscripts of Max Uhle and Walter Lehmann on Uchumataqu as well as a comparative and diachronic dictionary. This book is aimed at linguists from all disciplines but is of equal interest to anthropologists, Americanists, historical linguists, typologists, and linguists with a special interest in Andean studies. It is not only an important contribution to the study of Andean languages and their interrelationship, but also an account for the descendants of the last Uchumataqu speakers of their lost language. |
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Phonology | 2 |
Morphological processes and word class | 129 |
COND | 157 |
The Nominal system | 165 |
ᎠᎢ | 172 |
The Verbal system | 211 |
PST2 | 249 |
Adverbs postpositions and negation | 251 |
Clauses | 267 |
References | 293 |
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According action adjectival adjectives adverbs appears assume attached Aymara Chipaya clauses clitics close combination considerable considered consists contains declarative čay demonstrated described direction discussion documents element entirely established example exception expression final fricative function further future give given grammatical inflected initial instances interpretation interrogative Irohito kasi language lateral Lehmann lexicalised linguistic loan locative mainly manuscript marker marking meaning mentioned Métraux modifiers morpheme morphological Muysken nominal notes nouns object occurs origin particularly person singular phrases plural points Polo position possessive possible preceding predicate present probably processes pronoun Quechua question reduplication reference regard remains represented researchers respect restricted resultative shows similar sources Spanish speakers stem stress suffixes syllable symbol Table tense topic marker translation types Uchumataqu Uhle Vellard verb verbal vowel word