[etnolinguistica] Livros: Kwaz á (van der Voort); Evidencialidade (Aikhenvald)

Sun Oct 24 02:12:02 UTC 2004

Novos livros publicados por especialistas em línguas sul-americanas:
1. A Grammar of Kwazá (Hein van der Voort)
2. Evidentiality (Alexandra Aikhenvald)
[Anúncios publicados originalmente na Linguist List. Aos que já os receberam, peço desculpas pela repetição.]

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LINGUIST List: Vol-15-2973
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:37:31
From: Julia Ulrich < julia.ulrich at degruyter.com >
Subject: A Grammar of Kwaza: van der Voort

Title: A Grammar of Kwaza
Series Title: Mouton Grammar Library 30

Publication Year: 2004
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
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Book URL:
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Author: Hein van der Voort, University of Nijmegen

Hardback: ISBN: 3110178699 Pages: xxxviii, 1026 Price: Europe EURO
148.00
Comment: includes 1 CD-ROM

Abstract:

This work contains a comprehensive description of Kwaza, which is an endangered and unclassified indigenous language of Southern Rondônia, Brazil. The Kwaza language, also known in the literature as Koaiá, is spoken by around 25 people today. Until recently, our knowledge of Kwaza was based on only three short word lists, from 1938, 1943 and 1984. Like the language, the culture and the history of its speakers are
undocumented. The Kwaza people as an ethnic group have been decimated by  increasing ecological, physical, social and cultural pressure from Western civilisation since contact in the past century. This is the situation for many indigenous peoples of Rondônia and of the Amazon region in general. Linguists expect that the majority of these peoples will cease to exist as distinct language communities during the coming decades.

The present work is a contribution to the documentation and preservation of the languages of the Amazon basin. In this respect, Kwaza represents an especially urgent case in view of its undetermined classification, the lack of documentation and its endangered status.

This work is based on the author's personal fieldwork conducted between 1995 and 2002, and it consists of three parts. Part I contains a thorough description of the phonology and morphosyntax of the language and a concise overview of its social, cultural and historical context. Part II contains a diverse selection of transcribed and translated texts with interlinear morphological analyses. Part III is a dictionary of Kwaza, including many examples and an English-Kwaza register. This complete description is of interest to linguists in general, scholars of South American languages in particular, and anthropologists and historians interested in the Guaporé region.

Hein van der Voort is affiliated with the Universities of Nijmegen and Leiden in the Netherlands, and with the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi in Brazil.

Date of publication: July 2004

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Linguistic Field(s): Language Description

Subject Language(s): Kwaza (Language Code: XKWA)

Written In: English  (Language Code: ENG)

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LINGUIST List: Vol-15-2975
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:53:55
From: Lowri Jones < lowri.jones at oup.com >
Subject: Evidentiality: Aikhenvald

Title: Evidentiality
Publication Year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-926388-4

Author: Alexandra Aikhenvald, La Trobe University

Hardback: ISBN: 0199263884 Pages: 416 Price: U.K. £ 55

Abstract:

In some languages every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from someone else. This grammatical reference to information source is called 'evidentiality', and is one of the least described grammatical
categories. Evidentiality systems differ in how complex they are: some distinguish
just two terms (eyewitness and noneyewitness, or reported and everything else),
while others have six or even more terms. Evidentiality is a category in its own right, and not a subcategory of epistemic or some other modality, nor of tense-aspect.

Every language has some way of referring to the source of information, but not every language has grammatical evidentiality. In English, expressions such as I guess, they say, I hear that, the alleged are not obligatory and do not constitute a grammatical system. Similar expressions in other languages may provide historical sources for evidentials. True evidentials, by contrast, form a grammatical system. In the North Arawak language Tariana an _expression such as "the dog bit the man" must be augmented by a grammatical suffix indicating whether the event was seen, or heard, or
assumed, or reported.

This book provides the first exhaustive cross-linguistic typological study of how languages deal with the marking of information source. Examples are drawn from over 500 languages from all over the world, several of them based on the author's original fieldwork. Professor Aikhenvald also considers the role evidentiality plays in human cognition, and the ways in which evidentiality influences human perception of the world. This is an important book on an intriguing subject. It will interest anthropologists,
cognitive psychologists and philosophers, as well as linguists.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Written In: English  (Language Code: ENG)

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