Nivaclé Grammar

by Luis Díaz, Fernando Ángel, Lyle Campbell

This book offers an extensive description of Nivaclé, an indigenous language spoken in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina and Paraguay. Nivaclé's phonology, morphology, and syntax are complex; the language has no tenses marked on verbs, essentially no prepositions, and a sizable number of lexical suffixes whose content is so concrete they would be expected to be independent words in most other languages. Nivaclé has a unique speech...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607817756
• ISBN13: 9781607817758
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of Utah Press
• Length: 610 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 8.6" x 11.2"