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Author | : Patience Epps |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 1009 |
Release | : 2008-08-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110199076 |
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This work is a reference grammar of Hup, a member of the Nadahup family (also known as Makú or Vaupés-Japura), which is spoken in the fascinatingly multilingual Vaupés region of the northwest Amazon. This detailed description and analysis is informed by a functional-typological perspective, with particular reference to areal contact and grammaticalization. The grammar begins with an introduction to the cultural and linguistic background of Hup speakers, gives an overview of the phonology, and follows this with chapters on morphosyntax (nominal morphology, verbs and verb compounding, tense, aspect, modality, evidentiality, etc.); it concludes with discussions of negation, the simple clause, and clause combining. A number of features of Hup grammar are typologically significant, such as its strategy of inversion in question formation, its system of Differential Object Marking, and its treatment of possession. Hup also exhibits several highly unusual paths of grammaticalization, such as the development of a verbal future suffix from the noun ‘stick, tree’. The book also includes a selection of texts and a CD-ROM with audio files.
Author | : Katarzyna I. Wojtylak |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 613 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004432671 |
Download A Grammar of Murui (Bue) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Christina Willis Oko |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2019-08-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004409491 |
Download A Grammar of Darma Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Grammar of Darma provides a comprehensive description of this threatened Tibeto-Burman language spoken in India’s Himalayan region. The description is based on a corpus that includes natural discourse and elicited data. The analysis is informed by a functional-typological framework.
Author | : Riccardo Giomi |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2023-01-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004520570 |
Download A Functional Discourse Grammar Theory of Grammaticalization Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The volume surveys over a hundred diachronic changes from typologically diverse languages and concludes that the definitional property of meaning change in grammaticalization is that it never results in a decrease in the semantic or pragmatic scope of the construction.
Author | : Kristine Stenzel |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 531 |
Release | : 2013-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803246498 |
Download A Reference Grammar of Kotiria (Wanano) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This is the first descriptive grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), a member of the Tukanoan language family spoken in the Vaupes River basin of Colombia and Brazil in the northwest Amazon rain forest. The Kotirias have lived in this remote region for more than seven hundred years and participate in the complex Vaupes social system characterized by longstanding linguistic and cultural interaction. The Kotirias remained relatively isolated from the dominant societies until the early part of the twentieth century, when the region began to experience increasing outside influence leading to processes of rapid social and linguistic change. Today the Kotirias number only about sixteen hundred people and their language, though still used in traditional communities, is rapidly becoming endangered. Kristine Stenzel draws on eight years of intensive work with the Kotirias to promote, record, and revitalize their language. Working with dozens of native speakers and drawing on numerous oral narratives and written texts, this book is the first comprehensive study of this endangered language and one of the few reference grammars of this language family.
Author | : Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 549 |
Release | : 2012-05-17 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0199593566 |
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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.
Author | : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012-05-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191007994 |
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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.
Author | : Elena Mihas |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 709 |
Release | : 2015-06-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110766302 |
Download A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Ashéninka Perené belongs to the Kampa group of the Arawak family, located in the central Peruvian Amazon in the foothills of the Andes mountains. While limited grammatical studies of Kampa languages exist, this grammar is by far the most comprehensive study of any language of this sub-family, and is one of only two or three comparable studies of Arawak languages more generally.
Author | : Nicholas Evans |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2011-08-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027286620 |
Download Reciprocals and Semantic Typology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reciprocals are an increasingly hot topic in linguistic research. This reflects the intersection of several factors: the semantic and syntactic complexity of reciprocal constructions, their centrality to some key points of linguistic theorizing (such as Binding Conditions on anaphors within Government and Binding Theory), and the centrality of reciprocity to theories of social structure, human evolution and social cognition. No existing work, however, tackles the question of exactly what reciprocal constructions mean cross-linguistically. Is there a single, Platonic ‘reciprocal’ meaning found in all languages, or is there a cluster of related concepts which are nonetheless impossible to characterize in any single way? That is the central goal of this volume, and it develops and explains new techniques for tackling this question. At the same time, it confronts a more general problem facing semantic typology: how to investigate a category cross-linguistically without pre-loading the definition of the phenomenon on the basis of what is found in more familiar languages.
Author | : Loretta O'Connor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2014-03-20 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1107044286 |
Download The Native Languages of South America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the world explore the history and structure of these languages, combining insights from archaeology and genetics with innovative linguistic analysis. The book aims to uncover regional patterns and potential deeper genealogical relations between the languages. Based on a large-scale database of features from sixty languages, the book analyses major language families such as Tupian and Arawakan, as well as the Quechua/Aymara complex in the Andes, the Isthmo-Colombian region and the Andean foothills. It explores the effects of historical change in different grammatical systems and fills gaps in the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) database, where South American languages are underrepresented. An important resource for students and researchers interested in linguistics, anthropology and language evolution.