Mapudungun Fernando Ziifiga 2000 LINCOM EUROPA,Published by LINCOM EUROPA 2000, wa 375, t Mapdungen CONTENTS All correspondence concerning Languages ofthe World/Materials should be addressed to Acknowledgements 3 1 INTRODUCTION 4 LINCOM EUROPA Freibadstr. 3 II_ PHONOLOGY AND ORTHOGRAPHY 10-81543 Muenchen «biennale yoneme inventory LINCOM EUROPARtonline de 1.1 Consonants !ntoifmome.-oniine dothomelLINCOM EUROPA fa “Vawels 2 Phonotactics 2.1 Possible onsets Xi 2.2 Possible codas Xz 23. Resyllabification 3. Stress and intonation Al rights reserved, including the rights of translation into any foreign language. AR oithagiy 'No part ofthis book may be reproduced in any way without the permission of the publisher. IL MORPHOLOGY 3 1 Nominal morphology 13 Printed in EC. LA Prenominal elements ry Printed on chlorine-ree paper 12 Numerals 1s 13 Nouns 16 14 Non-singular-te and ejctives 7 15. Intenogatives and oer related elements 19 2. Verbal morphology 20 2.1 Finite verb forme and mood 20 Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP Cataloguing-in-Publication-Data 23) ‘Nondale vee 6 23 Valency-changing operations 35 A catalogue record for this publication is available from Die oa Aipae sing oP a Deutsche Bibliothek (hitp:/Mwww. dab de) Be Vebennpousde A 2.6 Nou incorporation 40 27 Diretionals 4 2.8 Tense and ruptured implicate 8 2.9. Aspect and related issues 46 2.10: Other verbal morphology st ISBN 3 29586 9767Mopadong 2 Lwans7s Lwint376 2 Mapudongn 3 Other lexical categories 35 21 Adpositions 38 32 Atvee st Acknowledgements 33. Conjunetions 38 3 Paes » 1am undeniably indebted to several sourees I consulted, especially Augusta e (1903, 1916), insightfil and extremely useful tools in spite of thir date, IV SYNTAX ‘Smeets (1989), which has the obvious merit of being the first 1 Sentences without a verbal predicate 6 comprehensive grammar in English according to modern standards, Salas ‘i 1992), a very readable and solid work of scholarship, and Harmetink 2 Simple sentences witha verbal predicate o ¢ i, lle edie @ (1996), an excellent manual of the language. I am very grateful to Clarita, 3 Complex sentences with verbal predicates “s ‘Antngo and especially Leonel Lila, wo patiently tolerated this wingta’s 3.1 Independent clauses se very personal way of asking improbable questions about their language. 32 Dependent causes Lukas Neukem and especially Karen Ebert drew my attention to many 4 Indect and direct speech 1 inconsistencies and passages that were in need of clarification in the inal_ manuscript. Maria Eugenia Musy-Febré gave me more ‘encouragement than she might be aware of, and Franziska made it all [APPENDIX 1: Verbal template 2 iin the rst place APPENDIX 2: Lounwords 4 APPENDIX 3: Sample texts 5 1 Ofshamans and teiriniation % 2 The beginning of a healing ceremony nm 3 The fox and the otter 8 4 APehtence story: The ox andthe buzasd 5 Abbreviations 85 Bibliography os