Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas – serie
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15 produkter
Linguistics and Archaeology in the Americas
The Historization of Language and Society
Av Eithne B. Carlin, Simon van de Kerke
Inbunden, 2010
2673 kr
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The contributors to this volume, an international group of leading specialists, guide us through different aspects of the study of Amerindian languages and societies that lie at the heart of the extensive and multi-facetted work of Willem Adelaar, the forerunning specialist in Native American …
Salish Applicatives
Av Kaoru Kiyosawa, Donna Gerdts
Inbunden, 2010
3277 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive view of the morphology, syntax, and semantics of applicatives in Salish, a language family of northwestern North America. Applicative constructions, found in many polysynthetic languages, cast a semantically peripheral noun phrase as direct object. Drawing upon …
Multi-verb Constructions
A View from the Americas
Av Alexandra Aikhenvald, Pieter Muysken
Inbunden, 2010
2647 kr
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One of the most complex topics in the study of the indigenous languages of the Americas, and indeed in the study of any language set, is the complex behaviour of multi-verb constructions. In many languages, several verbs can co-occur in a sentence, forming a single predicate. This book contains a …
Benasní - I Remember: Dene Sųłiné Oral Histories with Morphological Analysis
Av Josh Holden
Inbunden, 2013
3519 kr
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In Benasní – I Remember: Dene Sųłiné Oral Histories with Morphological Analysis, Josh Holden presents twelve autobiographical narratives about cultural change from Dene Sųłiné elders in an Aboriginal community in northern Saskatchewan, Canada. In ten interviews and two monologues, the speakers …
Typological Grammar of Panare
A Cariban Language of Venezuela
Av Thomas E. Payne, Doris L. Payne
Inbunden, 2012
2955 kr
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Panare, also known as E'ñapa Woromaipu, is a seriously endangered Cariban language spoken by about 3,500 people in Central Venezuela. A Typological Grammar of Panare by Thomas E. Payne and Doris L. Payne, is a full length linguistic grammar written from a modern functional and typological …
Negation in Arawak Languages
Av Lev Michael, Tania Granadillo
Inbunden, 2014
2169 kr
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Negation in Arawak Languages presents detailed descriptions of negation constructions in nine Arawak languages (Apurinã, Garifuna, Kurripako, Lokono, Mojeño Trinitario, Nanti, Paresi, Tariana, and Wauja), as well as an overview of negation in this major language family. Functional-typological in …
Reduplication in Indigenous Languages of South America
Av Gale Goodwin Gómez, Hein van der Voort
Inbunden, 2014
2834 kr
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The morphological process of reduplication occurs in languages throughout the world. Reduplication in indigenous languages of South America is the first volume to focus on reduplication in South America. The indigenous languages of South America remain under-documented and little accessible to …
Grammar of Muylaq' Aymara
Aymara as spoken in Southern Peru
Av Matt Coler
Inbunden, 2014
4967 kr
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In A Grammar of Muylaq’ Aymara, Matt Coler provides a detailed description of a highly-endangered variety of Aymara spoken in the remote Andean village of Muylaque (Muylaq’i), in Southern Peru. This heretofore undescribed variety has many unique characteristics that shed light on the impressive …
Phonetics and Phonology of Laryngeal Features in Native American Languages
Av Heriberto Avelino, Matt Coler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
3600 kr
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This book presents unique insights into laryngeal features, one of the most intriguing topics of contemporary phonetics and phonology. It investigates in detail properties such as tone, non-modal phonation, non-pulmonic production mechanisms (as in ejectives or implosives), stress, and prosody. …
grammar of Kukama-Kukamiria
A Language from the Amazon
Inbunden, 2016
4405 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive description of Kukama-Kukamiria, spoken by about 1000 elders in the Peruvian Amazon. The empirical basis for the grammar is fifteen years of fieldwork, including text data from 36 fluent speakers. Seventeen chapters deal with phonology, morphology, syntax and …
Grammar of Murui (Bue)
A Witotoan Language from Northwest Amazonia
Inbunden, 2020
2902 kr
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In A Grammar of Murui (Bue), Katarzyna Wojtylak provides the first complete description of Murui, an endangered Witotoan language, spoken by the Murui-Muina (Witoto) people from Colombia and Peru. The grammar is written from a functional and typological perspective, using natural language data …
Spanish Diversity in the Amazon
Dialect and Language Contact Perspectives
Inbunden, 2023
2136 kr
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This book, the first of its kind, is dedicated to different Spanish varieties spoken in the Amazonian regions of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. The contributions present diverse perspectives on theoretical, methodological, and descriptive characterizations of the study of Amazonian Spanish. It …
Mid-Holocene Language Connections between Asia and North America
Av Edward Vajda, Michael Fortescue
Inbunden, 2022
2603 kr
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This volume presents the up-to-date results of investigations into the Asian origins of the only two language families of North America that are widely acknowledged as having likely genetic links in northern Asia. It brings together all that has been proposed to date under the respective rubrics of …
Relative Clause Structure in Mesoamerican Languages
Inbunden, 2021
2235 kr
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As the first major survey of relative clause structure in the indigenous languages of Mesoamerica, this volume comprises a collection of original, in-depth studies of relative constructions in representative languages from across Mexico and Central America, based on empirical data collected by the …
Makú Language of the Auari River, Northern Amazonia
Inbunden, 2026
3734 kr
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This book provides a detailed grammatical and lexical description of Makú (Máku), a language isolate formerly spoken in a remote region of northern Brazilian Amazonia. Based on materials collected by researchers since 1912, it documents a language that became extinct around 2000 with the passing of …
