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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés South American Indian |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Oxford linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 636 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 612-614) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429469562 1429469560 9780191515071 0191515078 1280841095 9781280841095 019926256X 9780199262564 0199262578 9780199262571 9786610841097 6610841098 9780199270675 0199270678 |