Results 21 to 30 of about 12,613 (222)
Une typologie en cheminement :contribution de l’ese ejja à l’étude du mouvement associé
Lidil, 2012 The verbal suffixes of “associated motion” encode a motion associated to the action of the main verb. This paper presents a typology of this phenomenon, based on the description of the associated motion system found in Ese Ejja and reported in other ...
Marine Vuillermet
doaj +1 more source
On the path of time: Temporal motion in typological perspective [PDF]
, 2020 The Moving Ego and Moving Time metaphors have provided a fertile testing ground for the psychological reality of space–time metaphors. Despite this, little research has targeted the linguistic patterns used in these two mappings.
Duffy, Sarah, Feist, Michele
core +1 more source
A Bayesian Phylogenetic Classification of Tupí-Guaraní
Liames, 2015 This paper presents an internal classification of Tupí-Guaraní based on lexical data from 30 Tupí-Guaraní languages and 2 non-Tupí-Guaraní Tupian languages, Awetí and Mawé. A Bayesian phylogenetic analysis using a generalized binary cognate gain and loss
Lev Michael +6 more
doaj +1 more source
Constructing a concept of number [PDF]
, 2018 Numbers are concepts whose content, structure, and organization are influenced by the material forms used to represent and manipulate them. Indeed, as argued here, it is the inclusion of multiple forms (distributed objects, fingers, single- and two ...
Overmann, Karenleigh
core +1 more source
Introduction to Argument-Encoding Systems in Bolivian Amazonian Languages [PDF]
International Journal of American Linguistics, 2011 Here we offer a brief introduction to this special issue on argument-encoding systems of the little-known languages of Bolivian Amazonia, a region extremely rich linguistically. After providing some information on the sociolinguistic settings and the history of linguistic research in this area, we focus on the domain of argument-encoding systems in ...
Guillaume, Antoine, Rose, F.
openaire +1 more source
Event-Based Time in Three Indigenous Amazonian and Xinguan Cultures and Languages
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 This article reports a field study of event-based time concepts, their linguistic expression and their use in time reckoning practices in three indigenous cultures and languages of Brazil: Huni Kuĩ (Pano, North-West Amazonia), Awetý and Kamaiurá (Tupi ...
Vera da Silva Sinha
doaj +1 more source
The role of language in mathematical development: Evidence from children with specific language impairments [PDF]
, 2007 A sample (n=48) of eight year olds with Specific Language Impairments is compared with age-matched (n=55) and language matched controls (n=55) on a range of tasks designed to test the interdependence of language and mathematical development.
Cowan, Richard +3 more
core +2 more sources
Johann Natterer and the Amazonian languages
Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica, 2015 Johann Natterer (1787-1843) foi membro da expedição científica austríaca enviada para o Brasil em 1817. Como zoólogo, Natterer praticou a taxidermia in situ e forneceu à corte austríaca uma vasta coleção de animais empalhados e de objetos etnográficos. Menos conhecida e a sua dedicação a coletar dados linguísticos.
Adelaar, Willem F. H. +1 more
openaire +5 more sources
Number-neutral bare plurals and the multiplicity implicature [PDF]
, 2009 Bare plurals (dogs) behave in ways that quantified plurals (some dogs) do not. For instance, while the sentence John owns dogs implies that John owns more than one dog, its negation John does not own dogs does not mean "John does not own more than one ...
Zweig, E.
core +4 more sources
Liames, 2012 O livro “Language Endangerment and Endangered Languages” é o quinto número da série INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF LATIN AMERICA (ILLA), que edita a Universidade de Leiden.
Antônio Almir Silva Gomes
doaj +1 more source