Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú

Coleção Nicolai

The Máku (unknown linguistic affiliation), is an almost extinct language (only three speakers), of the Parima area, Territory of Roraima, Brazil. Linguistic investigation was done in March-April 1964 under the auspices of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi.
This paper is an attempt to describe the syntactic structure of a limited number of Máku utterances.
Four hierarchical levels are recognised: Sentence, Clause, Phrase and Word with morpheme classes. A set of rules are given for each level, thus generating word types, and in turn generating phrase types, clause types and sentence types. Transformations (obligatory and optional) have been inserted among the basic rules, wherever were pertinent, to take care of sequence restrictions, agreement, government, morpho-phonemic change etc.
The paper is in two parts. The first presents the rules within the hierarchical levels, and the second the rules explained and examples.

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