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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
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Un nouveau dialecte arawak : le Resígaro.
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
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Notas cromáticas sobre os sonhos ameríndios: transformações da pessoa e perspectivas
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
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Skyscape of an Amazonian Diaspora: Arawak Astronomy in Historical Comparative Perspective [PDF]
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
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Dicionário infantil bilíngue Terena – observações e apontamentos
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
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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
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El piapoco actual y el achagua del siglo XVIII: comparación de un esquema sintáctico
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
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Arawak Linguistics and Max Schmidt’s Account of Arawak Expansion
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.
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Literatura y antropologia: arawak y caribes
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
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