LINGUIST List 13.3320
Tue Dec 17 2002
Books: Anthropological Linguistics: Aikhenvald
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Message 1: Language Contact in Amazonia: Aikhenvald
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:45:03 +0000
From: bartonm <bartonmoup-usa.org>
Subject: Language Contact in Amazonia: Aikhenvald
Title: Language Contact in Amazonia
Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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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)