What Is The Meaning Of Kaia

The Shopkeeper and The Traveler

Still grieving the loss of her adoptive parents and a failed relationship, Brianna Moonspirit yearns for the movie-perfect life she always pictured for herself. Her closest friend and fellow journalist encourages her to start dating again and tries to help her relax with guided meditations. During one of the sessions, Brianna travels from cosmopolitan Seattle to another world within the Multiverse. During her interactions in the quaint seaside town of Loch Orrthannan, she discovers it's her destiny as the Traveler to vanquish a malevolent sorceress who has vowed to conquer the people of the Sídhenar Nation. Brianna is kidnapped, barely escapes with her life, and journeys nearly a thousand years into Astralmira's past to find the warrior-king who can help her fulfill an ancient prophecy. The Shopkeeper and The Traveler is the first installment of "The Traveler's Saga," a tale of discovery that spans several generations and wars on multiple worlds.

A Grammar of Kakataibo

Kashibo-Kakataibo is the westernmost Panoan language and, therefore, the one closest to the Andes Mountains. In terms of its typological profile, Kashibo-Kakataibo is a (mainly) postpositional and agglutinating language with a highly synthetic verbal morphology, which includes a highly complex tense system with several markers, some of which also express aspectual meanings. Kashibo-Kakataibo presents a mixed prosodic system, which combines stress and tone features. In addition, like with other Pano languages, Kashibo-Kakataibo exhibits a number of transitivity-related issues of high typological interest. First of all, the language shows an extremely complex system of grammatical relations, which includes tripatite, ergative, accusative, neutral and one horizontal alignment types. In addition, the language exhibits a fascinating interaction between syntactic case and pragmatic function. There are two fixed syntactic classes of verbs: transitive and intransitive. A verb root/base can only change its class by means of explicit morphological derivation (with only 4 ambitransitive verbs in the whole language). As in other Panoan languages, the transitivity class of the main verb is morphologically indicated throughout the clause, by means of complex systems of agreement and harmony (some of which are totally new even from a Panoan perspective)

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