Ayoreo (Zamuco) as a radical tenseless language
LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas, 2013 After defining the notion of tenselessness, the paper presents arguments to treat Ayoreo (with exceedingly poor verbal morphology) as a radical tenseless language. Apart from mood, which is overtly expressed by the realis vs irrealis opposition, all possible candidates to the status of temporal-aspectual exponents turn out to be, on closer inspection ...
Pier Marco Bertinetto
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A comparative wordlist for the languages of The Gran Chaco, South America. [PDF]
Open Res Eur, 2022 Home to more than twenty indigenous languages belonging to six linguistic families, the Gran Chaco has raised the interest of many linguists from different backgrounds.
Brid N, Messineo C, List JM.
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Zamucoan ethnonymy in the 18th century and the etymology of Ayoreo
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2021 This study presents new data on Zamucoan ethnonymy and solves an etymological problem concerning the term Ayoreo. The earliest documented Zamucoan language is Old Zamuco, spoken in the 18th century in the Jesuit missions of Chiquitos and close to present-
Luca Ciucci
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Revisiting the Diego Blood Group System in Amerindians: Evidence for Gene-Culture Comigration. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2015 International audienceSix decades ago the DI*A allele of the Diego blood group system was instrumental in proving Native American populations originated from Siberia. Since then, it has received scant attention.
Bégat C +3 more
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A protocol for a systematic literature review: comparing the impact of seasonal and meteorological parameters on acute respiratory infections in Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. [PDF]
Syst Rev, 2017 Background: Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally, and are often linked to seasonal and/or meteorological conditions.
Bishop-Williams KE +5 more
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Parataxis, hypotaxis and para-hypotaxis in the Zamucoan languages
Linguistic Discovery, 2012 The term "para-hypotaxis" is commonly used by Romance linguists to refer to sentences containing a proleptic dependent clause, with the main clause introduced by a coordinator.
Pier Marco Bertinetto, Luca Ciucci
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The lightness of existence and the origami of “French” anthropology: Latour, Descola, Viveiros de Castro, Meillassoux, and their so-called ontological turn [PDF]
, 2014 Latour turns to Wittgensteinian or Lyotardian language games, and Silversteinian deixis and metapragmatics, as formal means of distinquishing modern European discursive categories and institutions, each defined by three criteria: the right pre-position ...
Fischer, Michael M. J.
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A Seat at the Table: Including the Poor in Decisions for Development and Environment [PDF]
, 2010 Presents case studies of the access to information, public participation, and justice for the poor in environmental decision-making processes and barriers, including issues of literacy, costs, risk, and cultural context.
Joseph Foti, Lalanath de Silva
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Ecological and Sociodemographic Determinants of House Infestation by Triatoma infestans in Indigenous Communities of the Argentine Chaco [PDF]
, 2015 The Gran Chaco ecoregion, a hotspot for Chagas and other neglected tropical diseases, is home to >20 indigenous peoples. Our objective was to identify the main ecological and sociodemographic determinants of house infestation and abundance of Triatoma ...
Cardinal, Marta Victoria +4 more
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