21.980, Books: Morphology/Phonology/Sociolinguistics/Syntax: Eberhard

[linguist at LINGUISTLIST.ORG]

LINGUIST List: Vol-21-980. Sat Feb 27 2010. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 21.980, Books: Morphology/Phonology/Sociolinguistics/Syntax: Eberhard

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>
 
Reviews: Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Eric Raimy, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
       <reviews at linguistlist.org> 

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, 
and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemeh at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers
are available at the end of this issue. 

===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 24-Feb-2010
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp < lot at uu.nl >
Subject: Mamaindê Grammar: Eberhard
 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:33:07
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Mamaindê Grammar: Eberhard

E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=21-980.html&submissionid=2612597&topicid=2&msgnumber=1
  



Title: Mamaindê Grammar 
Subtitle: A Northern Nambikwara language and its cultural context 
Series Title: LOT dissertation series 236  

Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	
Author: Dave M. Eberhard

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460930126 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

This work contains a descriptive grammar of Mamaindê, a Northern Nambikwara
language of west central Brazil. The Mamaindê language is spoken by some
250 people, located in four communities. While bilingualism in Portuguese
is rapidly gaining ground, the spoken vernacular has so far been able to
preserve critical domains and thus maintain a healthy level of vitality.
There are many signs, however, of both cultural and language shift,
indicating that this language may be on the edge of endangerment. The first
chapter includes a broad overview of the culture and history of the
Mamaindê people. A connection between language and culture is stressed at 
the outset, with examples of this relationship being given at significant
points throughout the work. Subsequent chapters address the areas of
Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax, the last of which also includes a
section on Discourse. Data is offered which should be of interest to those
involved in the research of Nambikwara languages, Amazonian linguistics,
and linguistic typology. Specific topics which are relevant to current
theory include an eclectic view of feature geometry, the analysis of
pre-oralized nasal segments, coda licensing, stress in lexical strata, tone
sandhi, evidentiality, endearment terms, emotives, noun classifiers, the
impersonal construction, and the presence of low and high registers in an
Amazonian language. 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Morphology
                     Phonology
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)
	
See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=46367


MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Brill          
		http://www.brill.nl	

	Cambridge Scholars Publishing          
		http://www.c-s-p.org	

	Cascadilla Press          
		http://www.cascadilla.com/	

	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd          
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	De Gruyter Mouton          
		http://www.degruyter.com/mouton	

	Edinburgh University Press          
		http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/	

	Elsevier Ltd          
		http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics	

	Emerald Group Publishing Limited          
		http://www.emeraldinsight.com/	

	European Language Resources Association - ELRA          
		http://www.elra.info.	

	Georgetown University Press          
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu	

	John Benjamins          
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Lincom GmbH          
		http://www.lincom.eu	

	MIT Press          
		http://mitpress.mit.edu/	

	Multilingual Matters          
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/	

	Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG          
		http://www.narr.de/	

	Oxford University Press          
		http://www.oup.com/us	

	Peter Lang AG          
		http://www.peterlang.com	

	Rodopi          
		http://www.rodopi.nl/	

	Routledge (Taylor and Francis)          
		http://www.routledge.com/	

	University of Toronto Press          
		http://www.utpjournals.com/	

	Wiley-Blackwell          
		http://www.wiley.com	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass
		http://glsa.hypermart.net/ 

	International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://www.ipra.be 

	Langues et Linguistique
		http://y.ennaji.free.fr/fr/ 

	Linguistic Association of Finland
		http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ 

	Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
		http://www.lotpublications.nl/ 

	Pacific Linguistics
		http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ 

	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 

	St. Jerome Publishing Ltd
		http://www.stjerome.co.uk 
	




-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-21-980