The languages of the Amazon /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡. (Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; A plea; Preface and acknowledgements; Preamble: conventions, and the organization of this book; Tables, diagrams, figures, and box insets; List of maps; Abbreviations; 1. Languages of the Amazon: a bird's-eye view; 1.1 The limits of Amazonia; 1.2 Populating Amazonia; 1.2.1 The dates; 1.2.2 How many indigenous Amazonians are there?; 1.3 How the people used to live: environment, subsistence, and social structures; 1.3.1 Environment and subsistence; 1.3.2 Social structures; 1.3.3 The advent of the European Invader; 1.4 Amazonian languages: classification and names 
505 8 |a 1.4.1 Why can languages be similar?1.4.2 Language families in Amazonia; 1.4.3 How many languages are there?; 1.4.4 Names of languages, and names of families; 1.4.5 Languages of the 'Circum-Amazonian' domain; 1.5 Linguistic picture of Amazonia since the European conquest; 1.5.1 One group, many ancestors; 1.5.2 'New' languages, new identities; 1.6 Profiles of Amazonian families and some isolates; 1.6.1 Arawak languages; 1.6.2 Tupí languages; 1.6.3 Carib languages; 1.6.4 Panoan languages; 1.6.5 Tucanoan languages; 1.6.6 Macro-Jê languages; 1.6.7 Smaller families, and isolates 
505 8 |a 1.7 The Amazonian heritage: what lies aheadSources for Chapter 1; Appendix. Amazonian words; 2. Language contact in Amazonia; 2.1 Linguistic areas and language regions; 2.1.1 What is a linguistic area?; 2.1.2 Amazonia as a language region; 2.1.3 A summary: linguistic areas and language regions; 2.2 Amazonia and the Andes: language regions in contrast; 2.3 Linguistic areas in Amazonia; 2.3.1 The Vaupés River Basin as a linguistic area; 2.3.2 Further candidates for linguistic areas; 2.3.3 The Xingu Indigenous Park: a contact zone; 2.4 Further contact situations 
505 8 |a 2.5 Contact with national languages and lingua francasFurther sources and readings on areal linguistics and language contact, with special reference to Amazonia; Additional readings on the Vaupés River Basin linguistic area; 3. The sounds of Amazonia; 3.1 What Amazonian consonant systems are like; 3.2 How Amazonian consonants are unusual; 3.2.1 Unusual 'gaps'; 3.2.2 Rare sounds; 3.3 Amazonian vowels; 3.4 Syllable structure; 3.5 Prosodic features and phonological processes; 3.5.1 Nasalization and glottalization; 3.5.2 Vowel harmony; 3.6 Stress, pitch, and tone 
505 8 |a 3.6.1 Stress and pitch in Amazonian languages3.6.2 Tones in Amazonia; 3.7 The structure of 'word'; Appendix. How Amazonian languages compare with their neighbours; 4. Building words; 4.1 The typological profile of Amazonian languages; 4.2 The make-up of words; 4.2.1 Prefixes and suffixes; 4.2.2 Body-part prefixes: a Panoan feature; 4.3 Changing places: the order of suffixes; 4.4 Nouns, verbs, and adjectives: drawing the line; 4.5 A handful of persons; 4.5.1 'Me' and 'you'; 4.5.2 Further persons: impersonal and indefinite; 4.5.3 'Third person' in its many guises; 4.5.4 You, me, or neither? 
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