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Amazonian Quichua language and life : introduction to grammar, ecology, and discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Ecuador / Janis B. Nuckolls, Tod D. Swanson.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Nuckolls, Janis B., author.
Swanson, Tod D., 1955- author.
Contributor:
ProQuest ebook central.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Quechua language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.
Quechua language.
Quechua language--Dialects--Ecuador--Pastaza (Province).
Quechua language--Dialects.
Quechua Indians.
Manners and customs.
Ecuador--Pastaza (Province).
Quechua language--Dialects--Ecuador--Napo (Province).
Ecuador--Napo (Province).
Quechua Indians--Ecuador--Social life and customs.
Ecuador.
Genre:
Textbooks -- for foreign speakers.
Textbooks.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 279 pages) : illustrations
polychrome
Place of Publication:
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2020]
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Lesson 1: The most basic verbal interactions
Lesson 2: Expressing ideas of being
Lesson 3: Talking about family
Lesson 4: Types of questions
Lesson 5: Affirming, negating and evading
Lesson 6: Articulating the perspectives of self and other
Lesson 7: Human and nonhuman bodies
Lesson 8: Expressing thoughts, feelings, processes, and enumeration
Lesson 9: Suffixes of instrumentality, accompaniment and the imperatives
Lesson 10: Suffixes of Togetherness, Separateness, and Exclusivity
Lesson 11: Purpose, directionality, duration, color
Lesson 12: Attribution, location, past tense
Lesson 13: Habituality, complex movement suffixes, delimitation
Lesson 14: The Co-reference suffix -sha
Lesson 15: The Switch-Reference suffix -kpi
Lesson 16: The Present Perfect -shka
Lesson 17: Talking about the future
Lesson 18: Varieties of compound verbs
Lesson 19: Conditionality, ordering and connecting ideas
Lesson 20: Evidentiality, speech reports, Inchoative -ya, and Purposive -chun.
Notes:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-274) and index.
Other Format:
Print version: Nuckolls, Janis B. Amazonian Quichua language and life.
ISBN:
9781793616203
1793616205
Publisher Number:
99986695200
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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