Novos publicações no ILLA e promoção

[Hein van der Voort]

Prezados colegas,

Recentemente foram publicados dois novos volumes na nossa série
Indigenous Languages of Latin America (ILLA). A maioria dos artigos em
ILLA vol. 5 está em inglês, mas tem alguns artigos em espanhol, francês e
português. ILLA vol. 6 está inteiramente em inglês.

Além disso, a série está em promoção. Volumes 1 - 5 se vendem juntos por
100 Euros (preço normal 144 Euros) e volume 6 está com um desconto de 20%
se for comprado junto com volumes 1 - 5. A promoção vale até 15 de
Dezembro 2007. Mais informação sobre a série está no
www.cnwspublications.com (embora que neste site a promoção ainda não está
mencionada). Pedidos via: CNWS Publications, P.O.Box 9515, 2300 RA
Leiden, Paises Baixos. Fax +31(0)71 527 29 39. E-mail
cnwspublications at let.leidenuniv.nl.

W. Leo Wetzels (ed). 2007. Language Endangerment and Endangered
Languages: Linguistic and Anthropological Studies with Special Emphasis
on the Languages and Cultures of the Andean-Amazonian Border Area.
[Indigenous Languages of Latin America (ILLA) vol. 5]. Leiden: CNWS
Publications. (448 pp., ISBN 978-90-5789-154-0)

Swintha Danielsen. 2007. Baure: An Arawak language of Bolivia.
[Indigenous Languages of Latin America (ILLA) vol. 6]. Leiden: CNWS
Publications. (502 pp., ISBN 978-90-5789-155-7)

ILLA volume 5, Language Endangerment and Endangered
Languages: Linguistic and Anthropological Studies with Special Emphasis
on the Languages and Cultures of the Andean-Amazonian Border Area, edited
by Leo Wetzels, is a collection of articles resulting from two
conferences on endangered languages sponsored by the Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) in 2004. The first part of the
book, Language Endangerment and Endangered Languages, deals with issues
related to language endangerment and the problems linguists and other
researchers encounter when documenting these languages, both in general
terms and with an eye on the Andean/Amazonian situation. Among the
problems discussed are: the tension between the simultaneous need to
describe the innovative language of young people and preserve the more
conservative variants typical of older speakers; the great importance of
spontaneous material for the description of several core areas of the
grammar as opposed to the danger involved in working with recorded
translations; the degree of endangerment of particular indigenous
languages and the tensions between native languages and the national
language; the importance of the use of narratives for linguistic
description; and legal issues of cultural heritage and intellectual
property. The second part, Specific Studies: Languages and Cultures of
the Andean-Amazonian Border Area, contains three sections. The first
deals with topics that relate to the Maku peoples and languages of Brazil
(Eastern Maku) and Colombia ( Western Maku ). The second section features
papers that address anthropological and grammatical issues concerning the
Nambikwara peoples and languages (Brazil). The third section discusses
various other languages in the Andean/Amazonian border area. The
contributions contained in this part of the book deal with a wide variety
of linguistic themes, involving tone, tone reconstruction, stress,
lexical categories, clause linking, evidentiality, predication, as well
as questions relating to language classification and language
reconstruction.

The book contains 448 pages of articles, of which the majority are in
English, along with several articles in French, Portuguese and Spanish.
The sale price is 40 Euros and it can be ordered directly from the
publisher CNWS in Leiden. For ordering and further information about
other publications: http://www.cnwspublications.com/.

Contents:
0. W. Leo Wetzels “Introduction”
1. Marianne Mithun “Linguistics in the face of language endangerment”
2. Marie-France Patte “Standardization and endangered languages”
3. Maria S. de Aguiar “The Brazilian Panoan languages”
4. Maria do Socorro Pimentel da Silva “Djeoromitxi, uma Língua Indígena
Ameaçada de Extinção em Contexto Multilíngüe”
5. Jerzy Koopman “Meeting at and passing by new frontiers: Interfaces
between cultural heritage and intellectual property”
6. Dany Mahecha Rubio “Los nukak: experiencias y
aprendizajes del contacto con otras gentes”
7. Patience Epps “Birth of a noun classification system: the case of Hup”
8. Jesus Mario Girón Higuita & W. Leo Wetzels “Tone in Wansöhöt (Puinave)”
9. Silvana Andrade Martins “Serialização verbal em Dâw numa perspectiva
tipológica”
10. Valteir Martins “Sistema tonal das línguas Maku Orientais”
11. Ana María Ospina Bozzi “Predicates in Yuhup”
12. Fernando Zúñiga “The discourse-syntax interface in northwestern
Amazonia. Differential object marking in Makú and some Tucanoan
languages”
13. Marcelo Fiorini “The emotive vowel color: The affective use of
spatial deixis as a form of Nambikwara sound symbolism”
14. Edwin Reesink “Who are the Nambikwara: On names, partialities and
peoples
15. Gabriel Antunes de Araujo “Stress in Sabanê”
16. David Eberhard “Mamaindé tone: an account of plateauing in an
Amazonian language”
17. Stella Telles “Por onde andam os advérbios – família Nambikwára”
18. Willem F.H. Adelaar “The importance of toponymy, family names and
historical documentation for the study of disappearing and recently
extinct languages in the Andean region”
19. Jon Landaburu “La modalisation épistémique dans trois langues du sud
de la Colombie”
20. Aryon Rodrigues “Tupí languages in Rondônia and in Eastern Bolivia”
21. Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral “New Observations on The Constitution
of Kokáma/Omágua:  A Language of the Boundary Brazil, Peru, and Colombia”
22. Rafael Fischer “Clause Linkage in Cofán (A'ingae), a language of the
Ecuadorian-Colombian border region”
23. Elsa Gomez-Imbert “Tatuyo and Other Tukanoan Class Systems ”
24. Erik Levin “A reanalysis of the Aymara verb”

ILLA volume 6, Baure. An Arawak language of Bolivia, is
written by Swintha Danielsen, who recently defended her doctoral
dissertation at Nijmegen University. This book is first and foremost a
grammatical description of Baure, a seriously endangered language from
Bolivian Amazonia. Baure belongs to the Southern Arawak language family
and it forms part of the Guaporé-Mamoré linguistic area. The book is the
first detailed and comprehensive grammatical description of Baure,
covering its phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse stucture. It is
based on the author's extensive fieldwork in Bolivia in 2003, 2004, and
2006. The book furthermore addresses the historical, cultural, and
sociolinguistic background of the speakers of Baure. Special attention is
given to the complex (morpho)phonological processes within a phonological
phrase, the rich noun classification system, the distinction of verbal
and non-verbal predicates with respect to the argument marking pattern,
the three-level distinction of verbal morphology, and specific clause
types based on different nominalization strategies, which also play an
important role in clause subordination. The relation to the surrounding
Southern Arawak languages Trinitario, Ignaciano, and Paunaca is
investigated through comparison of the lexicon and the grammar. The
appendices contain different text types, lists of grammatical morphemes,
classifiers, and the Swadesh 200 word list. It is a highly valuable
addition to our knowledge of South American languages and cultures in
general and the Arawak languages in particular. This book is aimed at
linguists from all backgrounds and is of special interest to typologists,
historical linguists, Arawakanists, Americanists, and anthropologists. It
is also an important record of a dying language for its speech community
and their descendants.

The book is in English and contains 502 pages. The sale price is 45 Euros
and it can be ordered directly from the publisher CNWS in Leiden. For
ordering and further information about other publications:
http://www.cnwspublications.com/.

Hein van der Voort (co-editor da série)


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