A Grammar of Cavineña
Author: Antoine Guillaume
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Publication date: 2008
Number of pages: 937

Format / Quality: PDF - Excellent
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This book is a comprehensive grammatical description of the endangered Cavineña language (less than 1,200 speakers), spoken in the Amazonian rainforest of Lowland Bolivia, an area where the indigenous languages are virtually unknown.

Cavineña belongs to the Tacanan family, comprising five languages, none of which has been the subject of an adequate descriptive grammar.

The book is a thoroughly revised version of my doctoral dissertation (Guillaume 2004).