Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter / Lev Michael and Tania Granadillo -- Introduction / Lev Michael and Tania Granadillo -- Garifuna Negatives / Pamela Munro and Caitlin E. Gallagher -- Negation in Guianese Lokono/Arawak / Marie-France Patte -- On Negation in Kurripako Ehe-Khenim / Tania Granadillo -- Negation in Tariana: A North Arawak Perspective in the Light of Areal Diffusion / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- Negation in Apurinã (Arawak) / Sidi Facundes -- Negation in Wauja Discourse / Christopher Ball -- Standard and Non-Standard Negation in Paresi / Ana Paula Brandao -- Negation in Nanti / Lev Michael -- Negation and Irrealis in Mojeño Trinitario / Françoise Rose -- A Typological and Comparative Perspective on Negation in Arawak Languages / Lev Michael -- Index / Lev Michael and Tania Granadillo.

Negation in Arawak Languages presents detailed descriptions of negation constructions in nine Arawak languages (Apurinã, Garifuna, Kurripako, Lokono, Mojeño Trinitario, Nanti, Paresi, Tariana, and Wauja), as well as an overview of negation in this major language family. Functional-typological in orientation, each descriptive chapter in the volume is based on fieldwork by authors in the communities in which the languages are spoken. Chapters describe standard negation, prohibitives, existential negation, negative indefinites, and free negation, as well as language-specific negation phenomena such as morphological privatives, the interaction of negation with verbal inflectional categories, and negation in clause-linking constructions. Informed by typological approaches to negation, this volume will be of interest to specialists in Arawak languages, typologists, historical linguists, and theoretical linguists.