The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia (Oxford Linguistics)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0199270678
ISBN 13
9780199270675
Category
Grammar
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Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Pages
660
Description
R. M. W. Dixon, author of acclaimed grammars of Australian Aboriginal languages and Fijian, here describes the hauntingly complex structure of Jarawara, spoken by just 170 Indians. Professor Dixon shared their daily lives, deep in the Amazonian jungle, during seven field trips. He explains how their unusual language reflects their environment and their mental attitudes: for example, when someone describes something that has happened the grammar obliges that person to state whether or not he or she saw it happen. His account brings to life the culture of this tribe of slash-and-burn agriculturalists. - from Amzon
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