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Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 2021 Introduction: Tropical Andean and Amazonian ecosystems shape the great biodiversity found in Peru. However, studies on mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the country are scarce, resulting in an information gap regarding their diversity, ecology ...
Yuri Ayala-Sulca +3 more
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Computational phylogenetics and the classification of South American languages [PDF]
, 2019 In recent years, South Americanist linguists have embraced computational phylogenetic methods to resolve the numerous outstanding questions about the genealogi- cal relationships among the languages of the continent.
Chousou‐Polydouri, Natalia +1 more
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Does lateral transmission obscure inheritance in hunter-gatherer languages? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 In recent years, linguists have begun to increasingly rely on quantitative phylogenetic approaches to examine language evolution. Some linguists have questioned the suitability of phylogenetic approaches on the grounds that linguistic evolution is ...
Claire Bowern +6 more
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Para o conhecimento das línguas da Amazônia
Mana, 2004 O livro Amazonian Languages, organizado por R. M. W. Dixon e A. Y. Aikhenvald, publicado em 1999, já é uma obra de referência, de consulta quase obrigatória para todos os que se interessam por lingüística, línguas indígenas da Amazônia e etnologia das ...
Bruna Franchetto, Elsa Gomez-Imbert
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Conjunction and additive constructions in the language of the Gavião of Rondônia
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2021 As a contribution to the study of complex structures in native Amazonian languages, this article examines the syntax of additives and conjunctions in the language of the Gavião of Rondônia.
Denny Moore
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Evidentiality in the interrogator's Persuasion [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2020 Forensic Linguistics is an interdisciplinary field that began its work in the US and European courts in 1997. Since then, linguists have been able to expedite the processing of many cases by analyzing linguistic tools.
Masoud Dehghan, Atiyeh Karami
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Revista de Llengua i Dret - Journal of Language and Law, 2019 This article adds to the discussion on standardisation of minority languages spoken in primarily oral cultures. Focusing on Amazonian Kichwa (Quechuan, lowland Ecuador), we show how the introduction of a written standard can undermine language ...
Karolina Grzech +2 more
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, 2006 Number of Pages: 12Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Heyer, Miriam Muedeking +1 more
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Introduction: the limits of the explanatory potential of the alienability contrast
Linguistics, 2023 This introductory article outlines the central topic of the present special issue, viz. the contrast between alienable and inalienable possession, and how this contrast is reflected in the grammars and lexicons of natural languages.
Rose Françoise, Van linden An
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Amazonia: the last surviving Amazonian indigenous languages [PDF]
, 2020 In this article, we present the last surviving Amazonian indigenous languages after more than four centuries of colonization in the Brazilian Amazonia. To expand the study, we divided the languages into five categories: living, extinct, dead, weakened and revitalized.
Ademar dos Santos Lima +2 more
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