Search: Start Page ➙ Language: Kwazá (xwa) Alternative Names  Koaia, Quaiá, Coaiá, Koaya Family/Group  unclassified Area  South America General Data  Amazonian language • no phonemic tone, stress or length; morphology: • complex verb morphology; • majority of grammatical morphemes: suffixes; • basic tense distinction: future vs. non-future Typological Information  • word order: prevalence of SOV, SVO; Reduplication Form-Function  • CV- (plural) • -CV (plural, intensive, derivation) • full (plural, derivation, intensive) Relationship Form-Function  various forms - various functions Reduplication System  • reduplication of roots, syllables and bounded morphemes; • wide range of functions (mostly: temporal/aspectual plural nuances) • remote past is expressed by reduplication of the person marker + nominalizer Productivity  • Productive reduplication of roots, syllables and bounded morphemes and some lexicalized forms. • Many instances of reduplication are iconic, symbolizing quantity, repetitive sounds, geometrical shapes (van der Voort 2003: 72). • Full reduplication does not occur with nouns. Repetitive Operations  Phrasal repetition: ũtɛja bu-tse "it sits on the other side" --> ũtɛja-bu~ũtɛja-bu~ũtɛja-bu-tse "it is a triangle" (van der Voort 2003: 73) Forms  Select Valueσ affix CV root stem   Functions  Select Valuediminution intensification lexical enrichment other pluralization Patterns  Select Valuefull partial partial with affixation Semantics  Select Valuediminuity intensity other plurality   Word Classes  Select Value0 — noun 0 — verb adjective/adverb — adjective/adverb noun — noun pronoun — pronoun verb — verb   All Examples  ⊞ References    Terminology    Glossary    Field Descriptions

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