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ISBN: 1280841095 0191515078 1429469560 9781429469562 9780191515071 0199270678 9781280841095 019926256X 9780199262564 0199262578 9780199262571 0199600694 9786610841097 6610841098 9780199270675 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press
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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
Jaruára language --- Jarawara language --- Arawakan languages --- Grammar. --- Lexicology. --- Grammar --- Lexicology
ISBN: 019926256X 0199262578 0191532282 1280838302 1429468653 1280841095 0191515078 1429469560 9780199262564 9780199262571 0199270678 0199600694 9781429468657 9780191532283 9781280838309 9786610838301 6610838305 1383040427 1383041423 Year: 2004 Volume: *3 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,
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Dixon describes the hauntingly complex structure of Jarawara, spoken by just 170 Indians. He shared their daily lives, deep in the Amazonian jungle, during seven field trips. The author explains how their unusual language reflects their environment and their mental attitudes.
Relational grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Relational grammar. --- Psycholinguistics --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Grammar --- Mathematical linguistics --- 800 --- 800 Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek --- Taalwetenschap. Taalkunde. Linguistiek --- Grammaire relationnelle --- Grammaire comparée et générale --- Grammar, Relational --- Generative grammar --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative --- Jaruára language --- Jarawara language --- Arawakan languages --- Grammar. --- Lexicology. --- Lexicology --- Jaru�ara language --- Jaruara language
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