23.2972, Books: The Languages of the Amazon: Aikhenvald

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Subject: The Languages of the Amazon: Aikhenvald

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Title: The Languages of the Amazon 
Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us

Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199593569.do 

Author: Alexandra A. Aikhenvald

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199593569 Pages: 500 Price: U.K. £ 85

Abstract:

This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages 
in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in the 
world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction. 
Alexandra Aikhenvald, one of the world's leading experts on the region, 
provides an account of the more than 300 languages, comparing their 
common and unique features, setting out their main characteristics, and 
describing the histories and cultures of the people who speak them. The 
languages abound in rare features and in most cases have been in contact 
with each other for generations, giving rise to complex patterns of linguistic 
influence. The author draws on her own extensive field research to tease out 
and analyse the patterns of their genetic and structural diversity. In the 
process she shows how they reflect the interrelations of language and 
culture: different kinship systems, for example, produce different linguistic 
outcomes. She also explains the roles and workings of their unusual features 
including evidentials, tones and whistles, and elaborate positional verbs. The 
book ends with a glossary of terms, and a comprehensive list of references 
for those interested in following up a language or linguistic phenomenon.

Alexandra Aikhenvald's fascinating book is aimed at a wide readership, 
including linguists and anthropologists. It is unburdened by esoteric 
terminology, written in her characteristically straightforward style, and brought 
vividly to life with numerous anaecdotes of her experience in the region. It 
may be used as reference for research and as an introduction for courses in 
Latin American studies, Amazonian studies, linguistic typology, and general 
linguistics. 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Typology

Written In: English  (eng)

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