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Recursive Numeral Systems Optimize the Trade‐off Between Lexicon Size and Average Morphosyntactic Complexity

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 3, March 2024.
Abstract Human languages vary in terms of which meanings they lexicalize, but this variation is constrained. It has been argued that languages are under two competing pressures: the pressure to be simple (e.g., to have a small lexicon) and to allow for informative (i.e., precise) communication, and that which meanings get lexicalized may be explained ...
Milica Denić, Jakub Szymanik
wiley   +1 more source

Un nouveau dialecte arawak : le Resígaro.

open access: yes, 1951
Rivet Paul, de Wavrin Robert. Un nouveau dialecte arawak : le Resígaro.. In: Journal de la Société des Américanistes. Tome 40, 1951. pp.
Rivet, Paul, de Wavrin, Robert
core   +1 more source

Notas cromáticas sobre os sonhos ameríndios: transformações da pessoa e perspectivas

open access: yesRevista de Antropologia, 2016
Este trabalho tem como foco os sonhos ameríndios. Dedicar-me-ei a analisar alguns sonhos que foram relatados pela literatura etnológica das terras baixas da América do Sul; entre estes relatos estão aqueles que os Baniwa, povo arawak do Noroeste ...
João Jackson Bezerra Vianna
doaj   +1 more source

Arawak languages

open access: yes, 2005
A survey article about Arawak ...
Aikhenvald, Alexandra
core  

Skyscape of an Amazonian Diaspora: Arawak Astronomy in Historical Comparative Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The title of this article “Arawak Astronomy” suggests that the research matter concerns the astronomy of an already well-defined ethnographic entity. This however does not do justice to the complexities of Arawak (pre)history.
Sovereignty and Social Contestation   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Dicionário infantil bilíngue Terena – observações e apontamentos

open access: yesEntrepalavras: Revista de Linguística do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2013
This study aims at analyzing a dictionary of an indigenous language, more specifically, it reviews a lexicographic dissertation entitled “O Léxico da Língua Terêna.
Caroline Pereira de Oliveira   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Taxonomias das doenças entre os índios Baniwa (arawak) e desana (tukano oriental) do alto rio negro (Brasil)

open access: yesHorizontes Antropológicos, 2006
O presente artigo estuda as taxonomias de doenças de dois povos indígenas da região do Alto Rio Negro, Noroeste amazônico (Brasil): os Baniwa, da família lingüística arawak, e os Desana, da família lingüística tukano oriental.
Luiza Garnelo, Dominique Buchillet
doaj   +1 more source

El piapoco actual y el achagua del siglo XVIII: comparación de un esquema sintáctico

open access: yesLenguaje, 2008
El presente artículo analiza y contrasta una expresión en la lengua achagua del siglo XVIII. Se trata de ver si dicha expresión es un fenómeno o un morfema, y para tal efecto, se contrasta la información de los jesuitas Neira y Rivero con el achagua y el
Miguel A. Meléndez Lozano
doaj   +1 more source

Arawak Linguistics and Max Schmidt’s Account of Arawak Expansion

open access: yes, 2022
The following is a piece that I wrote far back in 2008 as I was finishing my dissertation and starting up as an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley. I was invited to write it as one of a number of commentaries for a new edition of Max Schmidt's 1917 work "Die Aruaken.
openaire   +1 more source

Literatura y antropologia: arawak y caribes

open access: yesJangwa Pana, 2014
Los mitos caribes están estrechamente ligados al mar.  originario de las mesetas amazónicas del alto Brasil, ese pueblo emigro durante generaciones descendiendo en un primer momento a la amazonia para esparcirse sobre las costas de Guyana y de Venezuela.
Patrick Bouletreau
doaj  

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