LINGUIST List 13.1658

Tue Jun 11 2002

Books: Language Description:Urarina texts

Editor for this issue: Dina Kapetangianni <dinalinguistlist.org>



Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue.

Directory

  • LINCOM EUROPA, Urarina texts by Knut J. Olawsky

    Message 1: Urarina texts by Knut J. Olawsky

     Date: 11 Jun 2002 17:59 GMT
    From: LINCOM EUROPA <LINCOM.EUROPAt-online.de>
    Subject: Urarina texts by Knut J. Olawsky


    Urarina texts

    Knut J. Olawsky Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University

    Urarina is a language isolate spoken by approximately 3000 people who live scattered in the Rio Chambira area of Loreto in the Peruvian rainforest. While the majority of Urarina speakers are monolingual, socio-economic changes have already lead to loss of certain cultural knowledge, including the capacity of story telling. This text collection intends to preserve the records of history from the Urarina perspective. Although very little is known about neighbouring ethnic groups (most of which are extinct), lexical and grammatical aspects indicate that the Urarina language is not genetically related to any of the tongues of the Rio Chambira or nearby areas. Therefore, it is still unclear from where the Urarinas may have descended. However, the content of the stories presented in this book may help to relate the way Urarinas view the world to that of other groups. For example, many cultures of Amazonia know a story of a flood in some way similar to the biblical account. Interestingly, the Urarinas recognize two quite different versions of a flood tale, which are both presented in this book. A short introduction to the cultural context offered in this collection helps to understand the way of living of the Urarinas. The sentences of each text include grammatical information in form of an interlinearised translation and a free translation. All data is based on recent fieldwork undertaken by the author.

    ISBN 3 89586 693 8. Languages of the World/Text Collections 17. 150 pp. USD 49.90 / EUR 48.50 / � 29.20.

    Free copies of LINCOM's catalogue 2002 ("project line 12") are now available from LINCOM.EUROPAt-online.de.

    LINCOM electronic n.e.w.s.l.e.t.t.e.r. :New books in June 2002. http://www.lincom-europa.com

    LINCOM EUROPA, Freibadstr. 3, D-81543 Muenchen, Germany; FAX +49 89 62269404; http://www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM.EUROPAt-online.de.


    Pubs-postscript-html



     

    ----------------- Major Supporters ----------------

     

     

    Academic Press

    http://www.academicpress.com

     

     

    Arnold Publishers

    http://www.arnoldpublishers.com

     

     

    Athelstan Publications

    http://www.athel.com

     

     

    Blackwell Publishers

    http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/

     

     

     

    Cambridge University Press

    http://www.cup.org

     

     

    Cascadilla Press

    http://www.cascadilla.com/

     

     

     

    Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd

    http://www.continuumbooks.com

     

     

     

    CSLI Publications

    http://csli-www.stanford.edu/publications/

     

     

     

    Distribution Fides

     

     

    Elsevier Science Ltd.

    http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/linguistics

     

     

    John Benjamins

    http://www.benjamins.com/���� http://www.benjamins.nl/

     

     

     

    Kluwer Academic Publishers

    http://www.wkap.nl/

     

     

     

    Lernout & Hauspie

    http://www.lhsl.com

     

     

    Lincom Europa

    http://www.lincom-europa.com

     

     

    MIT Press

    http://mitpress.mit.edu/books-legacy.tcl

     

     

     

    Mouton de Gruyter

    http://www.deGruyter.de/hling.html

     

     

     

    Multilingual Matters

    http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

     

     

     

     

    Oxford UP

    http://www.oup-usa.org/

     

     

    Pearson Education

    http://www.pearsoneduc.com/catalog.html

     

     

    Rodopi

    http://www.rodopi.nl/

     

     

     

    Routledge

    http://www.routledge.com/

     

    Springer-Verlag

    http://www.springer.de

     

    Summer Institute of Linguistics

    http://www.sil.org/

     

     

     

     

    ---------Other Supporting Publishers-------------

     

    Anthropological Linguistics

    http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/

     

    Bedford/St. Martin's

    http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/

     

    Finno-Ugrian Society

    http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/sus/

     

    Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc., Umass

    http://www.umass.edu/linguist/GLSA/

     

    International Pragmatics Assoc.

    http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/

     

    Kingston Press Ltd.

    http://www.kingstonpress.com

     

    Linguistic Assoc. of Finland

    http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/

     

    Linguistic Society of Southern Africa (LSSA)

    http://www.safest.org.za/bsp

     

    MIT Working Publishers in Linguistics

    http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/

     

    Pacific Linguistics

    http://pacling.anu.edu.au

     

    Pacini Editore Spa

    http://www.pacinieditore.it/

     

    Utrecht Institute of Linguistics

    http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/

     

    Virittaja Aikakauslehti

    http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/kks/virittaja.html

     

    Thursday, January 17, 2002