The Jarawara language of Southern Amazonia /:

The first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest, by one of the world's leading linguists. - ;This is the first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest, and now spoken by less than two hundred...

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Hauptverfasser: Dixon, Robert M. W., 1939- (VerfasserIn), Vogel, Alan R. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
South American Indian
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Schriftenreihe:Oxford linguistics.
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Zusammenfassung:The first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest, by one of the world's leading linguists. - ;This is the first account of Jarawara, a Southern Amazonia language of great complexity and unusual interest, and now spoken by less than two hundred people. It has only two open lexical classes, noun and verb, and a closed adjective class with fourteen members which can only modify a noun. Verbs have a complex structure with three prefix and some twenty-five suffix slots. There is an eleven-term tense-modal system with an evidentiality contrast (eye.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xx, 636 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 612-614) and index.
ISBN:9781429469562
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