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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820239503321

Autore

Dixon Robert M. W

Titolo

The Jarawara language of Southern Amazonia / / R.M.W. Dixon ; with the assistance of Alan R. Vogel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-383-04142-3

0-19-926257-8

1-280-84109-5

0-19-151507-8

1-4294-6956-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 636 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Oxford linguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

VogelAlan R

Disciplina

498/.9

Soggetti

Jaruara language - Grammar

Jaruara language - Lexicology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Series title from jacket.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [612]-614) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Plates; List of Tables; Organization and Cross-references; Abbreviations and Conventions; Map 1 Approximate locations of languages of the Arawá family; Map 2 Location of Madi dialects, and of Paumarí; 1 Introduction: The Language and its Speakers; 2 Phonology; 3 Grammatical Overview; 4 Predicate Structure: General; 5 Predicate Structure: Miscellaneous Suffixes; 6 Predicate Structure: The Tense-Modal System; 7 Predicate Structure: Secondary Verbs, Mood, and Negation; 8 Verbal Derivations: Causative and Applicative; 9 Verbal Reduplication; 10 Noun Phrase Structure

11 Possessed Nouns, and Adjectives; 12 Demonstratives and Related Forms; 13 Copula Clauses; 14 Structure of a Verbal Main Clause; 15 Commands and Questions; 16 A-Constructions and O-Constructions; 17 Complement Clauses; 18 Dependent Clauses; 19 Nominalized Clauses; 20 Peripheral Markers jaa and ni-jaa; 21 Other Peripheral Markers; 22 The Relational Noun ihi/ehene 'Due to, Because of'; 23 List Constructions; 24 Syntactic Organization; 25 Word Class Derivations; 26 Topics in Semantics; 27 Prehistory; Texts; References; Vocabulary;



List of Affixes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Dixon describes the hauntingly complex structure of Jarawara, spoken by just 170 Indians. He shared their daily lives, deep in the Amazonian jungle, during seven field trips. The author explains how their unusual language reflects their environment and their mental attitudes.