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Contents
3 | 20 |
List of Figures and Tables | 27 |
Word order and movement | 34 |
3 | 48 |
4 | 55 |
Structure of the clause | 62 |
Copular sentences | 117 |
Minor sentence types | 137 |
and pama tell | 334 |
Relative clauses | 361 |
Serial verb constructions | 389 |
Focus and predicate cleft constructions | 423 |
Passive constructions | 449 |
other syntactic processes | 472 |
Texts | 481 |
Basic vocabulary | 529 |
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Common terms and phrases
3poss adjectives adverbs alma Amerindian angga appears Arawak aspectual suffixation Berbice River bifi bofu cleft cliticization come-PF complement clause compound conjunction constituent construction copula creek creole creole languages dang deki derived dida discussed Dutch ENGL ɛkɛ focus following example free relatives go-PF gruite gutu habu hiri illustrated interpretation jefi jenda jerma jɛnda kandi kɛkɛ kɛnɛ KNOW-PF kumu Kwakwani language locative lombo main verb marker masi mɛtɛ minggi morpheme mutɛ negation noko nominal not=RESULT Note noun object ondro passive PAST perfective aspect person-PL plural postpositional preceding predicate preposition preverbal reduced form reduplicated reference relative clause relativization resultative scope serial verb serial verb constructions snake speakers subject position sukwa thing titi toko tutu utterance vowel wari wati wh-movement Wiruni woman words εκ εκε