Janis B. Nuckolls, Tod D. Swanson

Amazonian Quichua Language and Life

Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Ecuador

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces a first year of guided instruction for teaching Amazonian Quichua language and life. It covers two varieties of Quichua spoken in Ecuador, Pastaza, and Upper Napo in twenty lessons that include practice exercises, grammatical explanations, and cultural highlights with links to audiovisual stories, songs, and conversations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781793616210
• ISBN-10: 1793616213
• Artikelnr.: 64958131

Autorenporträt

By Janis B. Nuckolls and Tod D. Swanson

Inhaltsangabe

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 20: Evidentiality, speech reports, Inchoative -ya, and Purposive
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Vocabulary
Bibliography