Languages of the Amazon

Languages of the Amazon
Title Languages of the Amazon PDF eBook
Author Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Publisher Oxford University Press
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.

The Languages of the Amazon

The Languages of the Amazon
Title The Languages of the Amazon PDF eBook
Author Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher Oxford University Press
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.

Languages of the Amazon

Languages of the Amazon
Title Languages of the Amazon PDF eBook
Author Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 560
Release 2012-05-17
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0199593566

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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 Amazonian Languages

The Amazonian Languages
Title The Amazonian Languages PDF eBook
Author R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 482
Release 1999-09-23
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9780521570213

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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

HANDBOOK AMAZONIAN LANGUAGES
Title HANDBOOK AMAZONIAN LANGUAGES PDF eBook
Author Desmond C. Derbyshire
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 657
Release 2010-12-14
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 3110850818

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Handbook of Amazonian languages. 1.

Handbook of Amazonian Languages

Handbook of Amazonian Languages
Title Handbook of Amazonian Languages PDF eBook
Author Desmond C. Derbyshire
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 540
Release 1991
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9783110128369

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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.

Amazonian Spanish

Amazonian Spanish
Title Amazonian Spanish PDF eBook
Author Stephen Fafulas
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages 313
Release 2020-07-15
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9027261520

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Amazonian Spanish: Language contact and evolution explores the unique origins, linguistic features, and geo-political situation of the Spanish that has emerged in the Amazon. While this region boasts much linguistic diversity, many of the indigenous languages found within its limits are now being replaced by Spanish. This situation of language expansion, contact, and bilingualism is reshaping the sociolinguistic landscape of the Amazon by creating a number of Spanish varieties with innovative linguistic features that require closer scholarly attention. The current book documents this situation in detail. The chapters in this volume include work on distinct geographical regions of the Amazon, with primary data collected using different methodologies and language contact situations. The scholars in this volume specialize in an array of fields, including anthropological linguistics, bilingualism, language contact, dialectology, and language acquisition. Their work represents both formal and functional approaches to linguistics.