Amazonian languages today
Author: Francisco Queixalós
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13:
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HANDBOOK AMAZONIAN LANGUAGES
Author: Desmond C. Derbyshire
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010-12-14
Total Pages: 660
ISBN-13: 3110822121
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Handbook of Amazonian Languages
Author: Desmond C. Derbyshire
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9783110128369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
The Amazonian Languages
Author: R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-09-23
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780521570213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
The Amazonian Languages
Author: R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-09-23
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780521570213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Published: 2012-05-17
Total Pages: 549
ISBN-13: 0199593566
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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
Published: 2018-08-15
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9027264244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The Vanishing Languages of the Pacific Rim
Author: Osahito Miyaoka
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2007-04-12
Total Pages: 549
ISBN-13: 019926662X
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Endangered Languages
Author: Lenore A. Grenoble
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-03-26
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780521597128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an overview of the issues surrounding language loss. It brings together work by theoretical linguists, field linguists, and non-linguist members of minority communities to provide an integrated view of how language is lost, from sociological and economic as well as from linguistic perspectives. The contributions to the volume fall into four categories. The chapters by Dorian and Grenoble and Whaley provide an overview of language endangerment. Grinevald, England, Jacobs, and Nora and Richard Dauenhauer describe the situation confronting threatened languages from both a linguistic and sociological perspective. The understudied issue of what (beyond a linguistic system) can be lost as a language ceases to be spoken is addressed by Mithun, Hale, Jocks, and Woodbury. In the last section, Kapanga, Myers-Scotton, and Vakhtin consider the linguistic processes which underlie language attrition.
Language Contact in Amazonia
Author: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780199257850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
