An overview of one of the richest and most complex linguistic regions in the world, the Amazon Basin.
Author: Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521570212
Category: Foreign Language Study
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An overview of one of the richest and most complex linguistic regions in the world, the Amazon Basin.
Author: Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521570212
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 446
View: 123
The work of assembling better information on the grammatical structures of Amazonian languages has, in sum, been extremely rewarding for us as general linguists. As we worked on the linguistic documentation task, however, ...
Author: Desmond C. Derbyshire
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110854374
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 529
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Introduction The Handbook of Amazonian Languages ( henceforth HAL ) is a multi - volume work bringing together a body of descriptive material , particularly syntactic description , on the indigenous languages of Amazonia .
Author: Desmond C. Derbyshire
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311011495X
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 484
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This volume includes grammatical descriptions of Wai Wai, Warekena, a comparative survey of morphosyntactic features of the Tupi-Guarani languages, and a paper on interclausal reference phenomena in Amahuaca.
Author: Desmond C. Derbyshire
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110128365
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 529
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In The Amazonian Languages, Robert M. W. Dixon & Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds), 65–106. Cambridge: CUP. Bowerman, Melissa & Pederson, Eric. 1992. Topological Relations Picture Series. Nijmegen: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics ...
Author: Simon E. Overall
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9789027264244
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 415
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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.
Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191007996
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page:
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This guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia includes some of the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction.
Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199593569
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 514
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Although Daniel Everett was a missionary, far from converting the Pirahãs, they converted him.
Author: Daniel Everett
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 9781847651228
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 327
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This volume includes grammatical descriptions of Wai Wai, Warekena, a comparative survey of morphosyntactic features of the Tupi-Guarani languages, and a paper on interclausal reference phenomena in Amahuaca.
Author: Desmond C. Derbyshire
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110860382
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 484
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