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A linguistic analysis supporting a new model of the colonization of the Antilles before 1492. This work formulates a testable hypothesis of the origins and migration patterns of the aboriginal peoples of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico), the Lucayan Islands (the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and the Crown Colony of the Turks and Caicos), the Virgin Islands, and the northernmost of the Leeward Islands, prior to European contact. Using archaeological data as corroboration, the authors synthesize evidence that has been available in scattered l

Taino language --- Indians of the West Indies --- Arawakan languages --- Indigenous peoples --- Languages.

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Comparative linguistics --- South American Indian languages --- Arawakan languages. --- Areal linguistics. --- Languages in contact --- Tariana language. --- Tucanoan languages.

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This book is a reference grammar of Kulina, an Amazonian language spoken in Brazil and Peru. The dialect described by the author is spoken on the upper Purus River in the Brazilian state of Acre. Kulina belongs to the Arawan language family. It is predominantly head-marking and has a complex verbal morphology which is largely agglutinating with some instances of fusion. The language has two noun classes and two genders. The gender agreement of transitive verbs with their arguments is in part governed by intricate grammatical rules and in part pragmatically driven. There are three types of possession, alienable, inalienable, and kinship. The latter category only applies to some kinship nouns, while others are alienably possessed. Kulina has aspirated and unaspirated obstruents, but different aspirated obstruents do not co-occur in one morpheme due to Grassmann's law, a dissimilation process known from Sanskrit and Ancient Greek. The book contains two Kulina texts and a chapter on the lexicon, which discusses colour terms, generic nouns for plants and animals, pet vocatives, idioms, and the origin of loan words.

Culina language --- Corina language --- Culinha language --- Culino language --- Cuniba language --- Curiana language --- Curina language --- Kulina language --- Kulino language --- Madiha language --- Madija language --- Arawakan languages --- Grammar. --- Amazonian Languages. --- Arawan. --- Kulina.

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Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This is the first descriptive grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), a member of the Tukanoan language family spoken in the Vaupes River basin of Colombia and Brazil in the northwest Amazon rain forest. The Kotirias have lived in this remote region for more than seven hundred years and participate in the complex Vaupes social system characterized by longstanding linguistic and cultural interaction. The Kotirias remained relatively isolated from the dominant societies

Arawakan languages --- Areal linguistics. --- Guanano language --- Grammar. --- Indiana University, Bloomington. --- Amazon River Region --- Languages. --- Anana language --- Anano language --- Kotedia language --- Kotiria language --- Kotirya language --- Uanana language --- Wanana language --- Tucanoan languages --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of South America --- Indians of the West Indies --- Area linguistics --- Geolinguistics --- Linguistics --- Languages --- AISRI --- American Indian Studies Research Institute --- Amazonia --- Maipuran languages --- Maipure languages

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Arawak language. --- Arawak Indians --- Conversation analysis --- Discourse analysis --- Endangered languages --- Campa languages --- Communication and culture --- Culture and communication --- Culture --- Arawakan languages --- At-risk languages --- Disappearing languages --- Dying languages --- Fading languages --- Nearly extinct languages --- Threatened languages --- Vanishing languages --- Language and languages --- Language obsolescence --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Analysis of conversation --- CA (Interpersonal communication) --- Conversational analysis --- Oral communication --- Arrawac Indians --- Arruague Indians --- Aruaqui Indians --- Locono Indians --- Luccumi Indians --- Indians of South America --- Indians of the West Indies --- Arowak language --- Aruaqui language --- Locono language --- Loko language (Arawakan) --- Luccumi language --- Social life and customs. --- Perene River Valley (Peru) --- Perene Valley (Peru) --- Languages. --- Arawak language --- Social life and customs