A Grammar Of Tariana From Northwest Amazonia
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A Grammar Of Tariana From Northwest Amazonia
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Author : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-08-07
A Grammar Of Tariana From Northwest Amazonia written by Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-07 with Foreign Language Study categories.
A comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from the northwest Amazonian jungle.
A Grammar Of Tariana From Northwest Amazonia
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Author : Distinguished Professor and Director the Language and Culture Research Centre Alexandra Y Aikhenvald
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-14
A Grammar Of Tariana From Northwest Amazonia written by Distinguished Professor and Director the Language and Culture Research Centre Alexandra Y Aikhenvald and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY categories.
A comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from the northwest Amazonian jungle.
Language Contact In Amazonia
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Author : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Language Contact In Amazonia written by Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Foreign Language Study categories.
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.
The Languages Of The Amazon
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Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-18
The Languages Of The Amazon written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction. Alexandra Aikhenvald, one of the world's leading experts on the region, provides an account of the more than 300 languages. She sets out their main characteristics, compares their common and unique features, and describes the histories and cultures of the people who speak them. The languages abound in rare features. Most have been in contact with each other for many generations, giving rise to complex patterns of linguistic influence. The author draws on her own extensive field research to tease out and analyse the patterns of their genetic and structural diversity. She shows how these patterns reveal the interrelatedness of language and culture; different kinship systems, for example, have different linguistic correlates. Professor Aikhenvald explains the many unusual features of Amazonian languages, which include evidentials, tones, classifiers, and elaborate positional verbs. She ends the book with a glossary of terms, and a full guide for those readers interested in following up a particular language or linguistic phenomenon. The book is free of esoteric terminology, written in its author's characteristically clear style, and brought vividly to life with numerous accounts of her experience in the region. It may be used as a resource in courses in Latin American studies, Amazonian studies, linguistic typology, and general linguistics, and as reference for linguistic and anthropological research.
The Art Of Grammar
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Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-24
The Art Of Grammar written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. Several thousand distinct languages are currently spoken across the globe, each with its own grammatical system and its own selection of diverse grammatical structures. Comprehensive reference grammars offer a basis for understanding linguistic diversity and can provide a unique perspective into the structure and social and cognitive underpinnings of different languages. Alexandra Aikhenvald describes the means of collecting, analysing, and organizing data for use in this type of grammar, and discusses the typological parameters that can be used to explore relationships with other languages. She considers how a grammar can made to reflect and bring to life the society of its speakers through background explanation and the judicious choice of examples, as well as by showing how its language, history, and culture are intertwined. She ends with a full glossary of terms and guidance for those wanting to explore a particular linguistic phenomenon or language family. The Art of Grammar is the ideal resource for students and teachers of linguistics, language studies, and inductively-oriented linguistic, cultural, and social anthropology.
A Grammar Of Tariana From Northwest Amazonia
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Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-08-07
A Grammar Of Tariana From Northwest Amazonia written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-07 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonian jungle. Its speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as a result most people are fluent in five or six languages. Because of this rampant multilingualism, Tariana combines a number of features inherited from the protolanguage with properties diffused from neighbouring but unrelated Tucanoan languages. Typologically unusual features of the language include: an array of classifiers independent of genders, complex serial verbs, case marking depending on the topicality of a noun, and double marking of case and of number. Tariana has obligatory evidentiality: every sentence contains a special element indicating whether the information was seen, heard, or inferred by the speaker, or whether the speaker acquired it from somebody else. This grammar will be a valuable source-book for linguists and others interested in natural languages.
The Manambu Language Of East Sepik Papua New Guinea
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Author : Alexandra Aikhenvald
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-06-17
The Manambu Language Of East Sepik Papua New Guinea written by Alexandra Aikhenvald and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea and is based entirely on the author's immersion fieldwork. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages: Avatip, Yawabak, Malu, Apa:n, and Yambon (Yuanab) in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district. Manambu can be considered an endangered language. The Manambu language has many unusual properties. Every noun is considered masculine or feminine. Feminine gender - which is unmarked - is associated with small size and round shape, and masculine gender with elongated shape, large size, and importance. The Manambu culture is centered on ownership of personal names, and is similar to that of the Iatmul, described by Gregory Bateson. After an introductory account of the language and its speakers, Professor Aikhenvald devotes chapters to phonology, grammatical relations, word classes, gender, semantics, number, case, possession, derivation and compounding, pronouns, morphohology, verbs, mood and modality, negation, clause structure, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, the lexicon, current directions of change, and genetic relationship to other languages. The description is presented in a clear style in a framework that will be comprehensible to all linguists and linguistically oriented anthropologists.
The Languages Of The Amazon
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Author : Aleksandra ëIìUrʹevna Aæikhenvalʹd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Languages Of The Amazon written by Aleksandra ëIìUrʹevna Aæikhenvalʹd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Indians of South America categories.
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.
A Grammar Of Murui Bue
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Author : Katarzyna I. Wojtylak
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-10-12
A Grammar Of Murui Bue written by Katarzyna I. Wojtylak and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A Grammar of Murui (Bue) by Katarzyna Wojtylak is the first complete description of Murui (Witoto, Huitoto) spoken in Colombia and Peru. It is an important contribution to the study of Witotoan languages and linguistic typology of Northwest Amazonia.
Negation In Arawak Languages
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Author : Lev Michael
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2014-03-13
Negation In Arawak Languages written by Lev Michael and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-13 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.