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Directory         1.     Allison Finkel , The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia: Dixon Message 1: The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia: Dixon Date: 19-May-2011 From: Allison Finkel <allison.finkeloup.com> Subject: The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia: Dixon E-mail this message to a friend Title: The Jarawara Language of Southern Amazonia Published: 2011 Publisher: Oxford University Press                 http://www.oup.com/us Book URL: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Linguistics/SociolinguisticsAnthropologicalL/?view=usa&ci=9780199600694 Author: R. M. W. Dixon Paperback: ISBN: 9780199600694 Pages: 666 Price: U.K. £ 39.99 Comment: $75.00 Abstract: Please Note: This is a new version of a previously announced text. 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 (eyewitness/non-eyewitness) in the three past tenses. Of the two genders, feminine and masculine, feminine is unmarked. There are at least eight types of subordinate clause constructions, including complement clauses, relative clauses, coreferential dependent clauses, and "when," "if," "due to the lack of" and "because of" clauses.There are only eleven consonants and four vowels but an extensive set of ordered phonological rules of lenition, vowel assimilation and unstressed syllable omission. There are four imperative inflections (with different meanings) and three explicit interrogative suffixes within the mood system. The book is entirely based on field work by the authors. Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics                             Language Documentation                             Syntax                             Typology Subject Language(s): Jaruára (jap) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=55828 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. 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