International audienceMovima (isolate, lowland Bolivia) is a language with predicate-initial constituent order in the core clause. There is no copula in affirmative clauses. Unpossessed common nouns can function as main-clause predicates just as well as verbs. The difference between verbal and nonverbal predicates only becomes apparent in embedded (i.e. adverbial and complement) clauses: the predicate of an embedded clause is overtly morphologically marked, and the type of marking distinguishes verbal from nonverbal predicates. The same pattern occurs in negated clauses, which consist of embedded predicates preceded by a negative copula. The morphological marking of embedded predicates shows that not only verbs and nouns, but also demonstra...
International audienceThe morphological expression of non-verbal predication is a geographically wid...
The morphological expression of non-verbal predication is a geographically widespread, although not ...
International audienceThe morphological expression of non-verbal predication is a geographically wid...
International audienceMovima (isolate, lowland Bolivia) is a language with predicate-initial constit...
International audienceMovima (isolate, lowland Bolivia) is a language with predicate-initial constit...
International audienceMojeño Trinitario, an Arawak language spoken in Bolivia, makes frequent useof ...
International audienceMojeño Trinitario, an Arawak language spoken in Bolivia, makes frequent useof ...
International audienceMojeño Trinitario, an Arawak language spoken in Bolivia, makes frequent useof ...
International audienceIn Movima (isolate, lowland Bolivia), nouns can function as predicates, and ve...
International audienceIn Movima (isolate, lowland Bolivia), nouns can function as predicates, and ve...
International audienceIn Movima (isolate, Bolivia), both verbs and nouns are basically predicates, b...
International audienceIn Movima (isolate, Bolivia), both verbs and nouns are basically predicates, b...
Towards a typology of the predication of the simple sentence in the Guambiano language Abstract In ...
Non-verbal predication may involve a fully or partly inflected copula verb, an invariant particle, a...
International audienceThe morphological expression of non-verbal predication is a geographically wid...
International audienceThe morphological expression of non-verbal predication is a geographically wid...
The morphological expression of non-verbal predication is a geographically widespread, although not ...
International audienceThe morphological expression of non-verbal predication is a geographically wid...
International audienceMovima (isolate, lowland Bolivia) is a language with predicate-initial constit...
International audienceMovima (isolate, lowland Bolivia) is a language with predicate-initial constit...
International audienceMojeño Trinitario, an Arawak language spoken in Bolivia, makes frequent useof ...
International audienceMojeño Trinitario, an Arawak language spoken in Bolivia, makes frequent useof ...
International audienceMojeño Trinitario, an Arawak language spoken in Bolivia, makes frequent useof ...
International audienceIn Movima (isolate, lowland Bolivia), nouns can function as predicates, and ve...
International audienceIn Movima (isolate, lowland Bolivia), nouns can function as predicates, and ve...
International audienceIn Movima (isolate, Bolivia), both verbs and nouns are basically predicates, b...
International audienceIn Movima (isolate, Bolivia), both verbs and nouns are basically predicates, b...
Towards a typology of the predication of the simple sentence in the Guambiano language Abstract In ...
Non-verbal predication may involve a fully or partly inflected copula verb, an invariant particle, a...
International audienceThe morphological expression of non-verbal predication is a geographically wid...
International audienceThe morphological expression of non-verbal predication is a geographically wid...
The morphological expression of non-verbal predication is a geographically widespread, although not ...
International audienceThe morphological expression of non-verbal predication is a geographically wid...