Code: 04530632

Language Contact in Amazonia

Name: Language Contact in Amazonia
Brand: Oxford University Press
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by Aikhenvald, Alexandra (Professor and Research Leader, Cairns Institute, James Cook University)

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 398
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003
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This book considers how forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble one another and what the explanation is for this. The author aims (a) to explain and identify the relationship between areal diffusion and the genetic development of languages, and (b) to discover the means of distinguishing what may cause one language to share the characteristics of another. This is done using the example of Arawak and Tucanoan languages spoken in the large area of 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, interaction, and influence are resisted for ideological reasons. Professor Aikhenvald considers which grammatical categories are most and which are least likely to be borrowed in a situation of prolonged language contact where lexical borrowing is reduced to a minimum. She provides a genetic analysis of the languages of the region and considers their historical relationships with languages of the same family outside it. She also examines changes brought about by recent contact with European languages and culture, and the linguistic and cultural effects of being part of a group that is aware its language and identity are threatened. The book is presented in relatively nontechnical language and will interest linguists and anthropologists.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Language linguistics Psycholinguistics

94.83 €

Full title: Language Contact in Amazonia
Author: Aikhenvald, Alexandra (Professor and Research Leader, Cairns Institute, James Cook University)
Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 398
EAN: 9780199257850
ISBN: 019925785X
ID: 04530632
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Weight: 720 g
Dimensions: 241 × 163 × 27 mm
Date of publishing: 16. January 2003