LINGUIST List 13.3320

Tue Dec 17 2002

Books: Anthropological Linguistics: Aikhenvald

Editor for this issue: Marisa Ferrara <marisalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. bartonm, Language Contact in Amazonia: Aikhenvald

			
Title: Language Contact in Amazonia
			
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press 
 http://www.oup-usa.org/		 
			
Book URL: http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/019925785X.html
 
Author: Alexandra Aikhenvald, La Trobe University 

Hardback: ISBN: 019925785X, Pages: 350 pp, Price: $ 74.00
			
Abstract:

This book investigates the contact between Arawak and Tucanoan
languages spoken in the Vaupes river basin in northwest Amazonia,
which spans Colombia and Brazil. In this region language is seen as a
badge of identity: language mixing is resisted for ideological
reasons. The book considers which parts of the language categories are
likely to be borrowed. This study also examines changes brought about
by recent contact with European languages and culture, and the
linguistic effects of language obsolescence.

Lingfield(s): Anthropological Linguistics
		Sociolinguistics
			 
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)