A Typological Grammar of Panare : A Cariban Language of Venezuela

Introduction-the Language And Its Speakers -- 2 Phonology And Morphophonology -- Nouns And Nominals -- Nominal Derivation And Possessive Denominalization -- Modification -- The Morphosyntax Of The Verb: Organizing Principles -- Verb Derivation -- Past-perfective Aspect Constructions -- Non-pastperfective Aspect Constructions -- Minority Class Verbs -- Noun Phrase Structure -- Adpositional Phrases And Oblique Constituents -- Copula Constructions -- Voice And Valence -- Knowing And Not Knowing: Epistemic And Negative Categories -- Commands And The Expression Of Deontic Modality -- Questions -- Complementation -- Adverbial And Medial Clauses -- Relative Clauses. By Thomas E. Payne, Doris L. Payne. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 455-461) And Index.