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

Tod D. Swanson; Janis B. Nuckolls

doi:10.5771/9781793616203

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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.

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Edition: 1/2020
Copyright Year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-1619-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-1620-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 280
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
1. Lesson 1. The Most Basic Verbal Interactions No access
2. Lesson 2. Expressing Ideas of Being No access
3. Lesson 3. Talking about Family No access
4. Lesson 4. Types of Questions No access
5. Lesson 5. Affirming, Negating, and Evading No access
6. Lesson 6. Articulating the Perspectives of Self and Other No access
7. Lesson 7. Human and Nonhuman Bodies No access
8. Lesson 8. Expressing Thoughts, Feelings, Processes, Actions, and Enumeration No access
9. Lesson 9. Suffixes of Instrumentality, Accompaniment, and the Imperatives No access
10. Lesson 10. Suffixes of Togetherness, Separateness, and Exclusivity No access
1. Lesson 11. Purpose, Directionality, Duration, Color No access
2. Lesson 12. Attribution, Location, Past Tense No access
3. Lesson 13. Habituality, Movement Suffixes, Delimitation No access
4. Lesson 14. The Coreference Suffix –sha No access
5. Lesson 15. The Switch Reference Suffix –kpi No access
6. Lesson 16. The Present Perfect –shka No access
7. Lesson 17. Talking about the Future No access
8. Lesson 18. Varieties of Compound Verbs No access
9. Lesson 19. Conditionality, Ordering, and Connecting Ideas No access
10. Lesson 20. Evidentiality, Speech Reports, Inchoative –Ya, and Purposive –Chun No access
Vocabulary No access Pages 237 - 272
Bibliography No access Pages 273 - 274
Index No access Pages 275 - 280