A'ingae (Cofán)

This chapter presents the basic grammatical properties of A’ingae, a language isolate spoken in the provinces of Putumayo and Nariño in Colombia and in the province of Sucumbíos in Ecuador. Some of the more remarkable properties of A’ingae that are addressed in the chapter are: the phonemic status of prenasalized plosives and affricates; the large amount of grammatical clitics available in the language; the presence of classifiers; the extensive use of headless noun phrases; the largely parallel behaviour of verbal and non-verbal predicates; the switch reference and tail-head linkage system; and the segmental marking of information structural functions.