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The Amazonian Languages

Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521570213
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Amazonian Languages written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-23 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amazon Basin is arguably both one of the least-known and the most complex linguistic regions in the world. It is the home of some 300 languages belonging to around twenty language families, plus more than a dozen genetic isolates, and many of these languages (often incompletely documented and mostly endangered) show properties that constitute exceptions to received ideas about linguistic universals. This book provides an overview in a single volume of this rich and exciting linguistic area. The editors and contributors have sought to make their descriptions as clear and accessible as possible, in order to provide a basis for further research on the structural characteristics of Amazonian languages and their genetic and areal relationships, as well as a point of entry to important cross-linguistic data for the wider constituency of theoretical linguists.

Languages of the Amazon

Author : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199593566
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Languages of the Amazon written by Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia includes some of the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction.

HANDBOOK AMAZONIAN LANGUAGES

Author : Desmond C. Derbyshire
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110854376
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book HANDBOOK AMAZONIAN LANGUAGES written by Desmond C. Derbyshire and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Amazonian languages. 3.

Amazonian Spanish

Author : Stephen Fafulas
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261520
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Amazonian Spanish written by Stephen Fafulas and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazonian Spanish: Language contact and evolution explores the unique origins, linguistic features, and geo-political situation of the Spanish that has emerged in the Amazon. While this region boasts much linguistic diversity, many of the indigenous languages found within its limits are now being replaced by Spanish. This situation of language expansion, contact, and bilingualism is reshaping the sociolinguistic landscape of the Amazon by creating a number of Spanish varieties with innovative linguistic features that require closer scholarly attention. The current book documents this situation in detail. The chapters in this volume include work on distinct geographical regions of the Amazon, with primary data collected using different methodologies and language contact situations. The scholars in this volume specialize in an array of fields, including anthropological linguistics, bilingualism, language contact, dialectology, and language acquisition. Their work represents both formal and functional approaches to linguistics.

Handbook of Amazonian Languages

Author : Desmond C. Derbyshire
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110149913
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Amazonian Languages written by Desmond C. Derbyshire and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1986 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth volume in a series on the languages of Amazonia. This volume includes grammatical descriptions of Wai Wai, Warekena, a comparative survey of morphosyntactic features of the Tupi-Guarani languages, and a paper on interclausal reference phenomena in Amahuaca.

Amazonian Linguistics

Author : Doris L. Payne
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786115
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Amazonian Linguistics written by Doris L. Payne and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lowland South American languages have been among the least studied ln the world. Consequently, their previous contribution to linguistic theory and language universals has been small. However, as this volume demonstrates, tremendous diversity and significance are found in the languages of this region. These nineteen essays, originally presented at a conference on Amazonian languages held at the University of Oregon, offer new information on the Tupian, Cariban, Jivaroan, Nambiquaran, Arawakan, Tucanoan, and Makuan languages and new analyses of previously recalcitrant Tupí-Guaraní verb agreement systems. The studies are descriptive, but typological and theoretical implications are consistently considered. Authors invariably indicate where previous claims must be adjusted based on the new information presented. This is true in the areas of nonlinear phonological theory, verb agreement systems and ergativity, grammatical relations and incorporation, and the uniqueness of Amazonian noun classification systems. The studies also contribute to the now extensive interest in grammatical change.

The Amazonian Languages

Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521570213
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)

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On this and other worlds

Author : Kristine Stenzel
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961100195
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book On this and other worlds written by Kristine Stenzel and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume offers a collection of twelve interlinear texts reflecting the vast linguistic diversity of Amazonia as well as the rich verbal arts and oral literature traditions of Amazonian peoples. Contributions to the volume come from a variety of geographic regions and represent the Carib, Jê, Tupi, East Tukano, Nadahup, and Pano language families, as well as three linguistic isolates. The selected texts exemplify a variety of narrative styles recounting the origins of constellations, crops, and sacred cemeteries, and of travel to worlds beyond death. We hear tales of tricksters and of encounters between humans and other beings, learn of battles between enemies, and gain insight into history and the indigenous perspective of creation, cordiality and confrontation. The contributions to this volume are the result of research efforts conducted since 2000, and as such, exemplify rapidly expanding investment and interest in documenting native Amazonian voices. They moreover demonstrate the collaborative efforts of linguists, anthropologists, and indigenous leaders, storytellers, and researchers to study and preserve Amazonian languages and cultures. Each chapter offers complete interlinear analysis as well as ample commentary on both linguistic and cultural aspects, appealing to a wide audience, including linguists, historians, anthropologists, and other social scientists. This collection is the first of its type, constituting a significant contribution to focused study of Amazonian linguistic diversity and a relevant addition to our broader knowledge of Amerindian languages and cosmologies.

Language Isolates I: Aikanã to Kandozi-Shapra

Author : Patience Epps
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110419610
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Language Isolates I: Aikanã to Kandozi-Shapra written by Patience Epps and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.

Language Isolates II: Kanoé to Yurakaré

Author : Patience Epps
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110432846
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Language Isolates II: Kanoé to Yurakaré written by Patience Epps and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.

The Languages of the Amazon

Author : Aleksandra ëIìUrʹevna Aæikhenvalʹd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191739385
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book The Languages of the Amazon written by Aleksandra ëIìUrʹevna Aæikhenvalʹd and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia includes some of the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction.

Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages

Author : Simon E. Overall
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027264244
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages written by Simon E. Overall and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores typological variation within nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages. Using abundant data, generally from original and extensive fieldwork on under-described languages, it presents a far more detailed picture of nonverbal predication constructions than previously published grammatical descriptions. On the one hand, it addresses the fact that current typologies of nonverbal predication are less developed than those of verbal predication; on the other, it provides a wealth of new data and analyses of Amazonian languages, which are still poorly represented in existing typologies. Several contributions offer historical insights, either reconstructing the sources of innovative nonverbal predicate constructions, or describing diachronic pathways by which constructions used for nonverbal predication spread to other functions in the grammar. The introduction provides a modern typological overview, and also proposes a new diachronic typology to explain how distinct types of nonverbal predication arise.

Language Contact in Amazonia

Author : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199257850
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Language Contact in Amazonia written by Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the contact between Arawak and Tucanoan languages spoken in the Vaupés river basin in northwest Amazonia, which spans Colombia and Brazil. In this region language is seen as a badge of identity: language mixing is resisted for ideological reasons. The book considers which parts of the language categories are likely to be borrowed. This study also examines changes brought about by recent contact with European languages and culture, and the linguistic effects of language obsolescence.

Amazonian Languages

Author : Desmond C. Derbyshire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Amazonian Languages written by Desmond C. Derbyshire and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Don't Sleep, There are Snakes

Author : Daniel Everett
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847651224
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Don't Sleep, There are Snakes written by Daniel Everett and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahãs, they converted him. He shows the slow, meticulous steps by which he gradually mastered their language and his gradual realisation that its unusual nature closely reflected its speakers' startlingly original perceptions of the world. Everett describes how he began to realise that his discoveries about the Pirahã language opened up a new way of understanding how language works in our minds and in our lives, and that this way was utterly at odds with Noam Chomsky's universally accepted linguistic theories. The perils of passionate academic opposition were then swiftly conjoined to those of the Amazon in a debate whose outcome has yet to be won. Everett's views are most recently discussed in Tom Wolfe's bestselling The Kingdom of Speech. Adventure, personal enlightenment and the makings of a scientific revolution proceed together in this vivid, funny and moving book.

The Journal of Amazonian Languages

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Amazonian Languages written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On This and Other Worlds

Author : Kristine Stenzel
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781013289866
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book On This and Other Worlds written by Kristine Stenzel and published by Saint Philip Street Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This edited volume offers a collection of twelve interlinear texts reflecting the vast linguistic diversity of Amazonia as well as the rich verbal arts and oral literature traditions of Amazonian peoples. Contributions to the volume come from a variety of geographic regions and represent the Carib, Jê, Tupi, East Tukano, Nadahup, and Pano language families, as well as three linguistic isolates. The selected texts exemplify a variety of narrative styles recounting the origins of constellations, crops, and sacred cemeteries, and of travel to worlds beyond death. We hear tales of tricksters and of encounters between humans and other beings, learn of battles between enemies, and gain insight into history and the indigenous perspective of creation, cordiality and confrontation. The contributions to this volume are the result of research efforts conducted since 2000, and as such, exemplify rapidly expanding investment and interest in documenting native Amazonian voices. They moreover demonstrate the collaborative efforts of linguists, anthropologists, and indigenous leaders, storytellers, and researchers to study and preserve Amazonian languages and cultures. Each chapter offers complete interlinear analysis as well as ample commentary on both linguistic and cultural aspects, appealing to a wide audience, including linguists, historians, anthropologists, and other social scientists. This collection is the first of its type, constituting a significant contribution to focused study of Amazonian linguistic diversity and a relevant addition to our broader knowledge of Amerindian languages and cosmologies." This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.