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The Jarawara language of Southern Amazonia / R.M.W. Dixon ; with the assistance of Alan R. Vogel.
Van Pelt Library PM5099.8 .D59 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939-
- Series:
- Oxford linguistics
- [Oxford linguistics]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culina language--Dialects--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.
- Culina language.
- Indians of South America--Amazon River Region--Languages.
- Indians of South America.
- Language and languages.
- Amazon River Region.
- Genre:
- Textbooks -- for foreign speakers.
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 636 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- R. M. W. Dixon, author of acclaimed grammars of Australian Aboriginal languages and Fijian, here describes the hauntingly complex structure of Jarawara, spoken by just 170 Indians. Professor Dixon shared their daily lives, deep in the Amazonian jungle, during seven field trips. He explains how their unusual language reflects their environment and their mental attitudes: for example, when someone describes something that has happened the grammar obliges that person to state whether or not he or she saw it happen. His account brings to life the culture of this tribe of slash-and-burn agriculturalists.
- Notes:
- Series title from jacket.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [612]-614) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199270678
- OCLC:
- 53911524
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