32.818, Books: A Grammatical Description of Shiwiar: Kohlberger

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Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 20:52:57
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: A Grammatical Description of Shiwiar: Kohlberger

 


Title: A Grammatical Description of Shiwiar 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/a-grammatical-description-of-shiwiar 


Author: Martin Kohlberger

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933592 Pages: 421 Price: Europe EURO 40


Abstract:

Shiwiar is a language spoken by around 1,200 people in the Amazonian lowlands
of eastern Ecuador and northern Peru. It belongs to the Chicham (Jivaroan)
language family. This work is the first grammatical description of the
language, and it is based on a 30-hour audio-visual corpus of natural speech,
collected over 12 months of fieldwork between 2011 and 2016 in the Pastaza
province of Ecuador. 

The first half of the volume deals primarily with the theoretical and
methodological underpinnings of this work. Special emphasis is given to the
value of using natural language data for linguistic analysis, and the
importance of committing to a high standard of transparency and resolvability
with regards to the data. To set the scene, the Shiwiar language is placed
within its broader typological, areal and sociocultural context, with special
attention to the role of multilingualism and language contact in the region. 

In the second half of the book, an analysis of Shiwiar phonetics, phonology,
morphology, syntax and information structure is presented. Some of the most
salient and typologically interesting phenomena described include the high
degree of phonetic and phonological variability in the speech community, a
rare type of differential object marking, a rich paradigm of pronominal
indexing on the verb, and the extensive use of clause chains as a discursive
and clause combining device. This book not only provides an analysis of the
major linguistic structures in Shiwiar, but it also engages with the areal and
typological literature to shed light on their diachronic development.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Shuar (jiv)


Written In: English  (eng)

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