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The Languages of the Amazon

NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 2014, Vol.88 (3/4), p.446-448 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright KITLV, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies 2014 ;ISSN: 1382-2373 ;ISSN: 0028-9930 ;EISSN: 2213-4360 ;DOI: 10.1163/22134360-08803059

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  • Title:
    The Languages of the Amazon
  • Author: Carlin, Eithne B.
  • Subjects: Anthropology ; Classifiers ; Equatorial Tucanoan languages ; Evidentiality ; Firearms ; Grammatical relations ; Language ; Languages ; Linguistics ; Pidgins ; Serial verbs ; Speech styles ; Studies ; Topics ; Valence ; Word structure
  • Is Part Of: NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 2014, Vol.88 (3/4), p.446-448
  • Description: The rest of the chapters deal with various linguistically salient features: the sound sys- tems; word structure; nouns; verbs; grammatical relations; valency-changing strategies; evidentiality; genders and classifiers; serial verb constructions; sen- tence formation; stylistic features of Amazonian languages (including numeral systems, speech styles, male and female speech, and mixed languages such as Island Carib); and finally, a succinct summary of the book called the "treasures of Amazonian languages." [...]given that almost every feature dealt with in the book could be the topic of a more detailed analysis, this is merely an oversight and does not take away from the general usefulness of the book. [...]Aikhen- vald has published several in-depth monographs or edited books on the various topics presented in this volume. For all the major positive attributes that this book has, the first half of Chap- ter 1, which provides an historical overview and some information on the social structures of Amazonian groups, is clearly the weakest part of the book, con- taining a few factual errors and/or omissions and several inconsistencies in the spellings of names of languages and countries.
  • Publisher: Leiden: BRILL
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1382-2373
    ISSN: 0028-9930
    EISSN: 2213-4360
    DOI: 10.1163/22134360-08803059
  • Source: Brill Open Access Journals
    ProQuest Central
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