A Linguistic Analysis of Old Omagua Ecclesiastical Texts

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List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments Morphemes and Abbreviations Introduction Grammatical Sketch of Old Omagua Phonological Inventory Morphology Person-Marking Paradigms Vowel Hiatus Resolution Nominal Morphology Number Augmentative & Diminutive Nominal Past Tense =pua Nominal Future Tense =a Possession Verbal Morphology Tense-Aspect-Mood Tense Imperfective =ai upa `come to an end, run out' Irrealis =mia Certainty =tina Derivational Morphology Causative -ta Applicative =supe Clausal Nominalizers Container Nominalizer -iu Possessive Nominalizer =yaa Syntax Basic Clause Structure Nominal Modification Demonstratives and Quantifiers Noun-Noun Modification Modification via Nominalization of Stative Verb Adpositional Phrases Negation Clausal Negator oaya Privative =1ma Core Negator -s1ma Prohibitive ename Optative tene Interrogatives Polar Interrogatives Content Interrogative Noun-Phrase Coordination Coordination with weanu Coordination with Comitative =mukui Similative =ya Exact Similative maiamania Clause-Linking Purposive Markers Positive Purpose =senuni Negative Purpose =maka Non-assertive Marker =ai Temporal Relations Temporal Posteriority =sakap11 `after' Temporal Overlap: Point =pupekatu `when' Temporal Overlap: Period =kate `while' Reason Markers =ikua `because (of)' =sep1 `because (of)' Focus Markers Contrastive Focus puai Exclusive Focus =nani Verum Focus =semai Non-Verbal Predication Text Conventions Multilinear Text Format Orthographic Representations Lord's Prayer Bibliographic History and Previous Linguistic Study HervasYPanduro1787a Adelung1813a Rivet1910 Text of the Lord's Prayer Catechism Fragment Bibliographic History and Previous Linguistic Study GonzalezSuarez1904 Rivet1910 Cabral1995 Text of Catechism Fragment Full Catechism Bibliographic History and Previous Linguistic Study EspinosaPerez1935 Uriarte1952b, Uriarte1986 Text of Full Catechism Profession of Faith Omagua Passages in Uriarte's Diaries Part II, Section 71 Part II, Section 82 Part II, Section 105 Part III, Section 13 Part III, Section 28 Part III, Section 50 Part IV, Section 16 Part IV, Section 58 Part IV, Sections 121-122 Isolated Lexical Items Historical Context of Old Omagua Texts Jesuit Interactions with the Omagua in Maynas Language and Evangelization in Maynas Lenguas generales and lenguas particulares in Maynas Jesuit Linguistics in Maynas Practical Language Learning and Reliance on Translators Ecclesiastical Text Development and Use Jesuit Language Use in Old Omagua Ecclesiastical Texts Neologisms in Old Omagua Ecclesiastical Texts Calques in Old Omagua Ecclesiastical texts Comitative =mukui in Manner Adverbial Constructions Functional Extension of =sui ablative Extensions of =ai diffuse locative Semantic Extension of Lexical Items Linguistic Comparison of Catechism Texts Text History Conclusion