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Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Ecuador

Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Ecuador


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In Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Janis B. Nuckolls and Tod D. Swanson discuss two varieties of Quichua, an indigenous Ecuadorian language. Drawing on their linguistic and anthropological knowledge, extensive fieldwork, and personal relationships with generations of speakers from Pastaza and Napo communities, the authors open a door into worlds of intimate meaning that knowledge of Quichua makes accessible. Nuckolls and Swanson link grammatical lessons with examples of naturally occurring discourse, traditional narratives, conversations, songs, and personal experiences to teach readers about the languages’ structures and discourse patterns and speakers’ sensory depictions, ecological aesthetics, and emotional perspectives.

Table of Contents:
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Self and Other Lesson 1: The most basic verbal interactions Lesson 2: Expressing ideas of being Lesson 3: Talking about family Lesson 4: Types of questions Lesson 5: Affirming, negating and evading Lesson 6: Articulating the perspectives of self and other Lesson 7: Human and nonhuman bodies Lesson 8: Expressing thoughts, feelings, processes, and enumeration Lesson 9: Suffixes of instrumentality, accompaniment and the imperatives Lesson 10: Suffixes of Togetherness, Separateness, and Exclusivity Part 2: Space and Time Lesson 11: Purpose, directionality, duration, color Lesson 12: Attribution, location, past tense Lesson 13: Habituality, complex movement suffixes, delimitation Lesson 14: The Co-reference suffix -sha Lesson 15: The Switch-Reference suffix -kpi Lesson 16: The Present Perfect -shka Lesson 17: Talking about the future Lesson 18: Varieties of compound verbs Lesson 19: Conditionality, ordering and connecting ideas Lesson 2

About the Author :
Janis Nuckolls is professor of anthropological linguistics at Brigham Young University Tod Swanson is associate professor in the faculty of religious studies at Arizona State University.

Review :
Strongly rooted in day-to-day Quichua cultural experiences, this innovative and highly practical course book provides many insights into the language spoken in the upper Amazon in Ecuador. In its organization it strikes the right balance between grammatical overviews and cultural practices. It's your best entry into Quichua language-culture and a book that makes you want to learn even more. “This text represents a major accomplishment and considerably expands the available scholarship on not just one, but two varieties of Amazonian Quichua. This book is quite clearly the result of careful scholarship and long-term research with speakers of Amazonian Quichua. Writing with sensitivity to the rich linguistic and cultural practices of their interlocutors, the authors open a path for students to enter the relational world of Amazonian Quichua. Not just a linguistic textbook, the authors also contextualize the linguistic practices within the vibrant, and at times unfamiliar, social environment of speakers of Amazonian Quichua. This book will be useful for introductory and advanced language courses, as well as for independent scholars."


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  • ISBN-13: 9781978783324
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Ecuador
  • ISBN-10: 1978783329
  • Publisher Date: 21 Oct 2020
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 278


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