The first guide to Amazonia's over 300 languages compares their features, sets out their characteristics, and describes the cultures of those who speak them. Clearly written and brought vividly to life with anecdotes from the author's fieldwork, this is both an essential reference and an accessible introduction for linguistics and anthropologists.
The first guide to Amazonia's over 300 languages compares their features, sets out their characteristics, and describes the cultures of those who speak them. Clearly written and brought vividly to life with anecdotes from the author's fieldwork, this is both an essential reference and an accessible introduction for linguistics and anthropologists.
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Distinguished Professor and Research Leader (People and Societies of the Tropics) at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. She is an authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker who has since died) and Warekena (1998), plus A Grammar of Tariana, from northwest Amazonia (CUP, 2003). Her comprehensive grammar, The Manambu Language from East Sepik, Papua New Guinea, was published by OUP in 2008. Other books include Classifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization Devices (2000, paperback 2003), Language Contact in Amazonia (2002), Evidentiality (2004, paperback 2006), and Imperatives and Commands (2010) all published by OUP. She is co-editor with R. M. W. Dixon of the OUP series Explorations in Linguistic Typology, the fifth volume of which is The Semantics of Clause Linking (2009, paperback 2011).
Inhaltsangabe
1: Languages of the Amazon: a bird's eye view 2: Language Contact in Amazonia 3: Sounds of Amazonia 4: Building Words 5: The Multifaceted Noun 6: The Versatile Verb 7: Who Does What to Whom: grammatical relations 8: Changing Valency 9: How to Know Things: evidentials in Amazonia 10: Reflecting the World Around: genders, noun classes, and classifiers 11: 'We can't say it with one word': multiverb constructions 12: Putting a Sentence Together 13: The Art of Speech 14: Finale: the treasures of Amazonian languages Glossary of terms References Index of authors Index of languages, linguistic families, and areas Index of subjects
1: Languages of the Amazon: a bird's eye view 2: Language Contact in Amazonia 3: Sounds of Amazonia 4: Building Words 5: The Multifaceted Noun 6: The Versatile Verb 7: Who Does What to Whom: grammatical relations 8: Changing Valency 9: How to Know Things: evidentials in Amazonia 10: Reflecting the World Around: genders, noun classes, and classifiers 11: 'We can't say it with one word': multiverb constructions 12: Putting a Sentence Together 13: The Art of Speech 14: Finale: the treasures of Amazonian languages Glossary of terms References Index of authors Index of languages, linguistic families, and areas Index of subjects
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