Reference Grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), A

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of tables; List of figures and maps; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations used in glosses; Abbreviations for example sources; Format of examples and texts; 1 The Kotiria and their language; 2 Phonology; 3 Words; 4 Noun classes and noun formation; 5 Nominal morphology; 6 Noun phrases; 7 Verbal semantics and serialization processes; 8 Nonroot stem morphemes in the verb; 9 Clause modality; 10 Clause structure; 11 Complex sentences; Appendix 1: Texts; Appendix 2: Vocabulary; References; Index
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This is the first descriptive grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), a member of the Tukanoan language family spoken in the Vaupes River basin of Colombia and Brazil in the northwest Amazon rain forest. The Kotirias have lived in this remote region for more than seven hundred years and participate in the complex Vaupes social system characterized by longstanding linguistic and cultural interaction. The Kotirias remained relatively isolated from the dominant societies