Conversational structures of Alto Perené (Arawak) of Peru - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conversational structures of Alto Perené (Arawak) of Peru write by Elena Mihas. This book was released on 2017-01-19. Conversational structures of Alto Perené (Arawak) of Peru available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the research community, the book is a focused exploration of discourse patterns of Alto Perené Arawak, with emphasis on conversational structures. The book’s methodological scaffold is based on proposals and insights from multiple research fields, such as comparative conversation analysis, sociology, interactional linguistics, documentary linguistics, anthropological linguistics, and prosodic typology. The interactional patterns of a small Arawak language of Peru are shown to share the common infrastructure reported in the organization of conversation across other languages and cultures. Yet the analysis demonstrates a variety of unique nuances in the organization of interactional behavior of Alto Perené Arawak participants. The peculiarities observed are attributed to the language-specific semiotic resources and participants’ orientation to the local cultural norms. The book’s structured examination of conversational data of a small indigenous language of South America is anticipated to be of utility to linguistic research on understudied non-Western languages.
A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak)
A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak) write by Elena Mihas. This book was released on 2015-06-26. A Grammar of Alto Perené (Arawak) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ashéninka Perené belongs to the Kampa group of the Arawak family, located in the central Peruvian Amazon in the foothills of the Andes mountains. While limited grammatical studies of Kampa languages exist, this grammar is by far the most comprehensive study of any language of this sub-family, and is one of only two or three comparable studies of Arawak languages more generally.
Upper PerenŽ Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual
Upper PerenŽ Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Upper PerenŽ Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual write by Elena Mihas. This book was released on 2014-12-01. Upper PerenŽ Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The rich storytelling traditions of the Alto Perené Arawaks of eastern Peru are showcased in this bilingual collection of traditional narratives, ethnographic accounts, women’s autobiographical stories, songs, chants, and ritual speeches. The Alto Perené speakers are located in the colonization frontier at the foot of the eastern Andes and the western fringe of the Amazonian jungle. Unfortunately, their language has a slim chance of surviving because only about three hundred fluent speakers remain. This volume collects and preserves the power and vitality of Alto Perené oral and linguistic traditions, as told by thirty members of the Native community. Upper Perené Arawak Narratives of History, Landscape, and Ritual covers a range of themes in the Alto Perené oral tradition, through genres such as myths, folk tales, autobiographical accounts, and ethnographic texts about customs and rituals, as well as songs, chants, and oratory. Transcribed and translated by Elena Mihas, a specialist in Northern Kampa language varieties, and grounded in the actual performances of Alto Perené speakers, this collection makes these stories available in English for the first time. Each original text in Alto Perené is accompanied by an English translation, and each theme is introduced with an essay providing biographical, cultural, and linguistic information. This collection of oral literature is masterful and authoritative as well as entertaining and provocative, testifying to the power of Alto Perené storytelling.
Alto Perené-Español-English
Alto Perené-Español-English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alto Perené-Español-English write by Elena Mihas. This book was released on 2017. Alto Perené-Español-English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alto Perené speakers reside in the foothills of the eastern Andes and the western fringe of the Amazonian jungle of Peru. The highly endangered language is spoken by about three hundred people. There are a few hundred more people with varying degrees of proficiency in the language. This trilingual dictionary is a result of eight years of the author?s fieldwork in the Native community located in Chanchamayo Province of Peru. 0The dictionary is produced in close collaboration with fifty native speakers. It collects and preserves the most critical culture-specific information about the community?s traditional ways of living. The introductory prefaces in Spanish and English present a brief linguistic profile of the language. The dictionary provides glossaries in English and Spanish and links to online materials. It contains over 900 entries which are amply illustrated by natural language data from field recordings, and by numerous drawings and photographs. The readership includes Alto Perené learners, bilingual teachers, linguists and anthropologists.
Genders and Classifiers
Genders and Classifiers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genders and Classifiers write by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald. This book was released on 2019-08-03. Genders and Classifiers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers a comprehensive account of the typology of noun classification across the world's languages. Every language has some means of categorizing objects into humans, or animates, or by their shape, form, size, and function. The most widespread are linguistic genders - grammatical classes of nouns based on core semantic properties such as sex (female and male), animacy, humanness, and also shape and size. Classifiers of several types also serve to categorize entities. Numeral classifiers occur with number words, possessive classifiers appear in the expressions of possession, and verbal classifiers are used on a verb, categorizing its argument. These varied sorts of genders and classifiers can also occur together. This volume elaborates on the expression, usage, history, and meanings of noun categorization devices, exploring their various facets across the languages of South America and Asia, which are known for the diversity of their noun categorization. The volume begins with a typological introduction that outlines the types of noun categorization devices and their expression, scope, functions, and development, as well as sociocultural aspects of their use. The following nine chapters provide in-depth studies of genders and classifiers of different types in a range of South American and Asian languages and language families, including Arawak languages, Zamucoan, Hmong, and Japanese.
