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Date: 19-May-2011
From: Allison Finkel [allison.finkel at oup.com]
Subject: The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia: Dixon
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Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 22:15:33
From: Allison Finkel [allison.finkel at oup.com]
Subject: The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia: Dixon
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Title: The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia
Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Linguistics/SociolinguisticsAnthropologicalL/?view=usa&ci=9780199600694
Author: R. M. W. Dixon
Paperback: ISBN: 9780199600694 Pages: 666 Price: U.K. £ 39.99 Comment: $75.00
Abstract:
Please Note: This is a new version of a previously announced text.
This is the first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of
great complexity and unusual interest, and now spoken by less than two
hundred people. It has only two open lexical classes, noun and verb, and a
closed adjective class with fourteen members which can only modify a noun.
Verbs have a complex structure with three prefix and some twenty-five
suffix slots. There is an eleven-term tense-modal system with an
evidentiality contrast (eyewitness/non-eyewitness) in the three past
tenses. Of the two genders, feminine and masculine, feminine is unmarked.
There are at least eight types of subordinate clause constructions,
including complement clauses, relative clauses, coreferential dependent
clauses, and "when," "if," "due to the lack of" and "because of"
clauses.There are only eleven consonants and four vowels but an extensive
set of ordered phonological rules of lenition, vowel assimilation and
unstressed syllable omission. There are four imperative inflections (with
different meanings) and three explicit interrogative suffixes within the
mood system. The book is entirely based on field work by the authors.
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Language Documentation
Syntax
Typology
Subject Language(s): Jaruára (jap)
Written In: English (eng)
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