Chris Rogers is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Brigham Young University, USA. Motivated by a passion for linguistic fieldwork, he has conducted original research on the Xinkan (Guatemala), Inapari (Peru), Mixteco (Mexico), Wichi’ (Argentina), Quechua (Peru), Ninam (Brazil) and Maku (Venezuela) languages.

• ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviations and SymbolsCHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION1.1 THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS OF MÁKU1.1.1 The use of Máku in the Wider Pre- and Post-contact Context1.1.2 Language contact1.2 DATA SOURCES AND THE MÁKU DATABASE1.2.1 Sinfrônio’s idiolect1.3 ORGANIZATION OF THE GRAMMARCHAPTER 2 PHONOLOGY2.1 CONSONANTS2.1.1 Phonological alternations affecting consonants2.1.2 Consonant distribution2.2 VOWELS2.2.1 Phonological alternations affecting vowels2.2.2 Vowel distribution2.3 SYLLABLE STRUCTURE2.4 STRESS ASSIGNMENTCHAPTER 3 MORPHOLOGY PART I: WORD CLASSES AND INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY3.1 NOUNS3.1.1 Number 3.1.2 Case3.1.3 Possession3.2 PRONOUNS3.2.1 Personal pronouns3.2.2 Demonstrative pronouns3.2.3 Interrogative pronouns 3.2.4 Indefinite pronouns3.3 QUANTIFIERS3.3.1 Numbers 3.3.2 Indefinite quantifiers3.4 POSTPOSITIONS3.5 VERBS3.5.1 Agreement3.5.2 Tense-aspect-mood-evidentiality3.5.3 Suppletion3.6 ADVERBS 3.7 CONJUNCTIONS, INTERJECTIONS, IDEOPHONES, AND LEXICALIZATION CHAPTER 4 MORPHOLOGY PART II: DERIVATIONAL MORPHOLOGY AND COMPOUNDS 4.1 DERIVATIONAL MORPHEMES4.1.1 Diminutive -taka 4.1.2 Approximative -dakaja 4.1.3 Limitation suffix -mu 4.1.4 Verbal noun -na 4.1.5 Desiderative/negative desiderative suffixes 4.1.6 Bereavement 4.1.7 Circular-motion suffix -liku and circumventing-motion suffix -dakana 4.1.8 Valency-adjusting ku- 4.1.9 Reduplication 4.1.10 -ema 4.1.11 Allative -le 4.2 STEM COMPOUNDS 4.2.1 Idiomatic noun phrases 4.3 FLUIDITY OF GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES CHAPTER 5 SYNTAX 5.1 CONSTITUENT PHRASES AND DECLARATIVE CLAUSES 5.1.1 Phrases 5.1.2 Declarative clause types 5.2 IMPERATIVE CLAUSES 5.3 INTERROGATIVE CLAUSES 5.3.1 Constituent questions 5.3.2 Polarity questions 5.4 COMPLEX SENTENCES 5.4.1 Coordination5.4.2 Subordination 5.5 INFORMATION STRUCTURE 5.5.1 Ellipsis 5.5.2 Focus positions and the clitic =ke 5.5.3 Particles etsiwa and ijani CHAPTER 6 TYPOLOGICAL SIMILARITIES CHAPTER 7 TEXTS 7.1 THE OPOSSUM AND THE TURTLE 7.2 BUCHA AND MAKUNAIMA 7.3 MENIWA 7.4 FLOOD 7.5 MALOAKA CHAPTER 8 GLOSSARIES 8.1 MÁKU-ENGLISH-PORTUGUESE GLOSSARY8.2 ENGLISH-MÁKU WORD LISTREFERENCES INDEX