The fourth volume in a series on the languages of Amazonia. 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.
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Wai Wai is a language of the Carib family spoken in a village on the Mapuera river of Para, Brazil, and in another village on the Jatapuzinho River of Roraima, Brazil, by a few people living among the Hixkaryana people on the Nhamundá River in Amazonas, Brazil, in another village near Gunn's Strip on the Upper Essequibo River in Guyana, and by a group living among the Trio Indians in Southern Surinam. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nominal case suffix, pausal marker, person hierarchy rule, relaxed consonants, unspecified possessor, aspectual clitics, independent phonological word, linking prefix, possession suffix, portmanteau prefixes, controlling verb, adverbialized forms, free form subject, same subject constraint, controlling clause, unstable vowels, clitic character, rapid register, possessor prefixes, equative clauses, free form noun, ingressive action, locative clauses, undergoes attraction, independent clitics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wai Wai, Northern Maipuran, Jesus Christ, Pamela Munro, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Baniwa of Guainia, Lingua Geral, Old Guarani, Jesu Kritu, Warekena of Xie, Sao Paulo, Cambridge University Press, New York, Paraguayan Guarani, South America, Upper Rio Negro, Ideophones Ideophones, Rio de Janeiro, University of Texas Press New!
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Wai Wai is a language of the Carib family spoken in a village on the Mapuera river of Para, Brazil, and in another village on the Jatapuzinho River of Roraima, Brazil, by a few people living among the Hixkaryana people on the Nhamundá River in Amazonas, Brazil, in another village near Gunn's Strip on the Upper Essequibo River in Guyana, and by a group living among the Trio Indians in Southern Surinam. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nominal case suffix, pausal marker, person hierarchy rule, relaxed consonants, unspecified possessor, aspectual clitics, independent phonological word, linking prefix, possession suffix, portmanteau prefixes, controlling verb, adverbialized forms, free form subject, same subject constraint, controlling clause, unstable vowels, clitic character, rapid register, possessor prefixes, equative clauses, free form noun, ingressive action, locative clauses, undergoes attraction, independent clitics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Wai Wai, Northern Maipuran, Jesus Christ, Pamela Munro, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Baniwa of Guainia, Lingua Geral, Old Guarani, Jesu Kritu, Warekena of Xie, Sao Paulo, Cambridge University Press, New York, Paraguayan Guarani, South America, Upper Rio Negro, Ideophones Ideophones, Rio de Janeiro, University of Texas Press New!
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- The Amazonian Languages (Cambridge Language Surveys) by R. M. W. Dixon on 4 pages
- Language Universals and Linguistic Typology by Bernard Comrie on page 425
- University of Oregon by Jesse Thomas on page 476
- Amazon Crude by Judith Kimerling in Front Matter
- Ethnobotany of the Waimiri Atroari Indians of Brazil by Milliken in Front Matter
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- Pronouns (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory) by D. N. S. Bhat on 10 pages
- Auxiliary Verb Constructions (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory) by Gregory D. S. Anderson on 8 pages
- Lenition and Contrast: The Functional Consequences of Certain Phonetically Conditioned Sound Changes (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics) by Naomi Gurevich on 6 pages
- An Effort Based Approach to Consonant Lenition (Outstanding Dissertations in Music from British Universities) by Robert Kirchner on 5 pages
- Consonant Strength: Phonological Patterns and Phonetic Manifestations (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics) by Lisa M. Lavoie on 5 pages
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