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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2001
The Amazonian Languages. R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 446 pp.
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The Amazonian Languages. R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald. eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 446 pp.
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Amazonian Quichua Language and Life
2020In Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Janis B. Nuckolls and Tod D. Swanson discuss two varieties of Quichua, an indigenous Ecuadorian language. Drawing on their linguistic and anthropological knowledge, extensive fieldwork, and personal relationships with generations of ...
Janis B. Nuckolls, Tod D. Swanson
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Amazonian Linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American Languages
Language, 1991Preface List of Contributors Introduction (Doris L. Payne) I. Historical and Comparative Studies Language History in South America: What We Know and How to Know More (Terrence Kaufman) Some Widespread Grammatical Forms in South American Languages (David L. Payne) Valence-Changing Affixes in Maipuran Arawakan Languages (Mary Ruth Wise) Cross-Referencing
Daniel L. Everett, Doris L. Payne
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Language Classification, Language Contact, and Amazonian Prehistory
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2009Abstract The linguistic map of Amazonia presents a startling jumble of languages and language families. While some families – most notably Carib, Arawak, Macro‐Jê, and Tupí– are distributed widely throughout the region, their spread is interspersed with many dozens of tiny, localized families and language isolates, particularly in the
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Nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages
2018This 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.
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A LANGUAGE OF DREAMING: DREAMS OF AN AMAZONIAN INSOMNIAC
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1999The author describes a series of psychoanalytic interviews conducted on the banks of an Amazonian stream, in the course of which a lively old Parintintin woman, wife of a chief, acknowledges and comes to terms with her lifelong insomnia. When she sleeps, she is plagued with anxious dreams; and her dreams take her back to her childhood as the daughter ...
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A Survey of Contemporary Research on Amazonian Languages
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2010Abstract Amazonian languages have long confounded linguists. The languages represent a large number of linguistic families, including Tupí, Jê, Carib and Arawak, and the languages exhibit a wide variety of typologically‐remarkable structural characteristics.
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Nominalizations, case domains, and restructuring in two Amazonian languages
2020In ‘Nominalizations, case domains, and restructuring in two Amazonian languages’ Salanova and Tallman examine the synchronic state of two constructions whose diachronic origin in constructions that embed nominalizations is clear. Though nominal morphology in the lower clause and subordinating elements such as adpositions are the most obvious signs of ...
Andrés Pablo Salanova, Adam Tallman
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