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The Amazonian Languages

1999-09-23
The Amazonian Languages

Author: Robert M. W. Dixon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521570212

Category: Foreign Language Study

Page: 482

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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.

HANDBOOK AMAZONIAN LANGUAGES

2010-12-14
HANDBOOK AMAZONIAN LANGUAGES

Author: Desmond C. Derbyshire

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

ISBN: 9783110854374

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 529

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Handbook of Amazonian languages. 3.

Handbook of Amazonian Languages

1986
Handbook of Amazonian Languages

Author: Desmond C. Derbyshire

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

ISBN: 311011495X

Category: Amazon River Region

Page: 496

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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.

Languages of the Amazon

2012-05-17
Languages of the Amazon

Author: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780199593569

Category: Foreign Language Study

Page: 549

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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.

Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages

2018-08-15
Nonverbal Predication in Amazonian Languages

Author: Simon E. Overall

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

ISBN: 9789027264244

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 415

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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.

Amazonian Linguistics

2014-06-23
Amazonian Linguistics

Author: Doris L. Payne

Publisher: University of Texas Press

ISBN: 9780292786110

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 584

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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.

A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia

2003-08-07
A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia

Author: Aleksandra IUrevna Aikhenvald

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521826640

Category: Foreign Language Study

Page: 744

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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.