Linguas da Amazonia: University of Colorado. Boulder

Wed Apr 1 04:30:13 UTC 2009

Alexandra Aikhenvald will be presenting a series of lectures on Amazonian languages in typological perspective at the University of Colorado (Boulder) between 1 June and 2 July 2009. The abstract is enclosed:

Special Topics in Linguistics: Language Structures—
Explorations in Linguistic Diversity: Amazonian
Languages and Beyond
LING 3800, 3 semester hours, Section 100, Call No. 45701
LING 6510, 3 semester hours, Section 100, Call No. 45702
Term A: June 1–July 2, 2009

Over 4,000 distinct languages are currently spoken across the globe, many of them by small tribal communities. More than two-thirds of the world’s languages are spoken in tropical areas. Of these, the Amazon basin is an area of great linguistic diversity, comprising around 300 languages grouped into over 15 language families, plus a fair number of isolates. Amazonian languages also show diversity in their structure: we find unusual sounds, tone patterns, ways of classifying nouns, and of putting clauses together in one sentence. A considerable degree of language contact in the Amazonian area has resulted in unusual patterns of multilingualism, vast linguistic areas, and some shared features. The course will address the reasons for such genetic and structural diversity, and the similarities between Amazonian languages. We will then look at the ways in which linguistic diversity in Amazonia compares to other linguistically rich areas—Australia and New
 Guinea.

Professor Aikenvald is Professor and Research Leader (People and Societies of the Torpics) at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. She has authored 14 books, co-edited 18 books, and authored or co-authored 138 papers. Her work includes grammars of several Amazonian languages, of Manambu, from New Guinea, grammars of Hebrew, and contributions to the study of Berber languages, in addition to general typological work on classifiers, evidentiality, serial verbs and imperatives, and on language contact.. Professor R.M.W. Dixon, a leading contemporary linguist, will offer guest lectures in this course. 

Further information on the program is at: http://www.colorado.edu/summer/downloads/SumSess09-Sec1.pdf

Contact Sasha.Aikhenvald at jcu.edu.au, www.Aikhenvald.Linguistic.com

Disclaimer: please note that neither Professor Aikhenvald nor Professor Dixon now have any connection with La Trobe University. Their expertise in Australian, Arawak, Arawá languages, and also Amazonian and Papuan languages in general, has been transferred to the Cairns Institute at James Cook University.
 Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, PhD, DLitt, FAHA
Professor and Research Leader (Peoples and Societies of the Tropics)
Cairns Institute James Cook University
PO Box 6811
Cairns
Queensland 4870
Australia 

mobile 0400 305315 

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Subject: [etnolinguistica] Teses, Unicamp: Kaiowá (Cardoso 2008), Achê (Roessler 2008)

Os seguintes trabalhos foram recentemente incluídos na Biblioteca
Digital da Unicamp (http://libdigi. unicamp.br/):

Aspectos morfossintáticos da língua Kaiowá (Guaraní)
Valéria Faria Cardoso
Orientadora: Lucy Seki
Doutorado, 2008
http://libdigi. unicamp.br/ document/ ?code=000431965

Aspectos da gramática Achê: descrição e reflexão sobre uma hipótese de contato
Eva-Maria Roessler
Orientadora: Maria Filomena Spatti Sandalo
Mestrado, 2008
http://libdigi. unicamp.br/ document/ ?code=000434677

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