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ISBN: 0511706235 1108006701 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
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'Die Hianákoto-Umáua', first published in 1908, is Theodor Koch-Grünberg's illustrated account of the expedition he made together with other scientists to Northern Brazil in the years 1903-1905. The German researcher, a pioneer in the field of South American ethnology, describes his encounters with the indigenous people who lived in the region of the Japurá River and the Rio Negro. The Omagua tribe had lived there before the Spanish conquest of South America in the sixteenth century. Koch-Grünberg explains that although the words Omagua and Umáua are alike, the sixteenth-century Omagua tribe was culturally and linguistically quite distinct from the Umáua tribe he himself met. The main focus of the book is a systematic record of the vocabulary of the Umáua tribe based upon the author's own observations. He lists words relating to a variety of topics including body parts, medicine and religion.
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ISBN: 9004314520 9789004314528 9789004314511 9004314512 Year: 2016 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill,
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This book offers a comprehensive description of Kukama-Kukamiria, spoken by about 1000 elders in the Peruvian Amazon. The empirical basis for the grammar is fifteen years of fieldwork, including text data from 36 fluent speakers. Seventeen chapters deal with phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse phenomena. Salient typological features include a robust morphological distinction between male and female speech; the expression of TAM categories via fixed clitics; the encoding of three-place predicates by means of transitive clauses; six directive constructions that distinguish degrees of pragmatic force; and multiple types of purpose clauses that differ in terms of coreference control. This grammar also shows the Tupí-Guarani origin of an important number of Kukama-Kukamiria grammatical structures and advances comparative studies in the region.
Cocama language --- Cocama Cocamilla language --- Huallaga language --- Kokama language --- Kokama-Kokamilya language --- Kukama-Kukamiria language --- Pampadeque language --- Pandequebo language --- Ucayale language --- Ucayali language --- Xibitaoan language --- Tupi-Guarani languages --- Grammar. --- Grammar --- Amerindian languages
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