Culture-specific notions of causation in Matses grammar
Culture-specific notions of causation in Matses grammar. This paper looks at the linguistic coding of a typologically unusual type of causation in Matses, a Panoan language spoken in Amazonian Peru and Brazil. Specifically, the topic is the nominalizing suffix -anmës, whose function can be defined...
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| Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2001-01-01
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| Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/jsa/1959 |