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• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• 14 Kanǒ
• 15 Kwaza
• 16 M̀ku
• 17 Movima
• 18 Muniche
• 19 M̮ky
• 20 Omurano
• 21 Piraĥ (Ap̀itis̕)
• 22 Taushiro
• 23 Tinigua
• 24 Trumai
• 25 Urarina
• 26 Ŵ́ns̲j̲t (Puinave)
• 27 Wao Terero
• 28 Warao
• 29 Yaruro (Pum̌)
• 30 Yurakař (Yur͠jare)
• Index

• Intro
• Preface
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: The languages of Amazonia
• 1 Aikanã
• 2 A'ingae (Cofán)
• 3 Andoke
• 4 A₄hwa
• 5 Betoi-Jirara
• 6 Cayubaba
• 7 Chimane-Mosetén
• 8 Cholón
• 9 Guató
• 10 Harakmbut
• 11 Itonama
• 12 Jodï
• 13 Kandozi-Chapra
• Index

"A bold and unflinching portrayal of contemporary Maya life in Chiapas, Mexico"-- Provided by publisher

• Acknowledgments List of Tables and Figures Glosses, Abbreviations, and Notations
• 1 The Book and the Language 1.1 Complex Predicate Constructions 1.2 Definitions and Criteria in the Analysis of Complex Predicates 1.3 Past Work on Mayan Complex Predicates 1.4 An Overview of Complex Predicates in Q'anjob'al and Other Mayan Languages 1.5 Data and Methodology 1.6 Background on the Language 1.7 Organization of the Book
• 2 Morphosyntax of Simple and Complex Predicates 2.1 The Predicate Nucleus 2.2 Inflectional Morphology of Simple Predicates 2.3 Inflectional Morphology of Complex Predicates 2.4 Multiply Complex Predicates 2.5 Complex Predicates versus Compound Verbs
• 3 The Monoclausal Syntax of Complex Predicate Constructions 3.1 Basic Assumptions and Tests 3.2 Simple Clause 3.3 Clause Types in Q'anjob'al 3.4 Finite Monoclausal Features of Complex Predicates 3.5 The First Near-Twins: Intransitive V2 versus Uninflected Nonfinite Clause 3.6 The Second Near-Twins: Transitive V2 versus Inflected Nonfinite Clause 3.7 The Syntax of Other Complex Predicate Constructions 3.8 Conclusions
• 4 The Argument Structure and Meaning of Complex Predicates 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Argument Structure and Its Analysis 4.3 The Meanings of Complex Predicates in Q'anjob'al 4.4 The Argument Structure of Complex Predicates 4.5 The Rule of Predicate Adjacency in Total Fusion 4.6 Conclusions
• 5 Event Structure and Lexical Semantics in Complex Predicates 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Assumptions about Event Structure and Its Reflexes in Q'anjob'al 5.3 Event Structure and Lexical Restrictions in Resultative Complex Predicates 5.4 Event Structure and Lexical Restrictions in Positional End-State Complex Predicates 5.5 Event Structure and Lexical Restrictions in Causative Complex Predicates 5.6 Event Structure and Lexical Restrictions in Monitoring Complex Predicates 5.7 Event Structure and Lexical Semantics in the Benefactive Complex Predicate 5.8 Conclusions
• 6 Conclusions about Complex Predicates and Extensions of their Analysis 6.1 The Approach to Complex Predicates: Conclusions and Generalizations 6.2 Avenues for Extending the Complex Predicate Approach to Other Constructions 6.3 Avenues for the Diachrony of Complex Predicates
• References Index.
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In this book, Eladio Mateo Toledo presents a description and analysis of resultatives, end-states, monitoring constructions, causatives, and directional constructions in the Mayan language Q'anjob'al spoken in the northwest of Guatemala. Although causatives (analyzed as clause union) and directionals (analyzed as serial verbs) have long been studied in Mayan languages, no Mayan language has been shown to have an extensive list of complex predicates. This volume contains the first coherent account of a series of complex predicates in a Mayan language. The book shows that complex predicates in Q'anjob'al use one of two predicative frames, a verb+verb frame or a nonverbal+verb frame, and that only five general parameters explain their formal and semantic properties.
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• Narración
• Cuento
• Conversación
• Sintaxis
• Léxico.

"Reading the Illegible examines the history of alphabetic writing in early colonial Peru, deconstructing the conventional notion of literacy as a weapon of the colonizer. This book develops the concept of legibility, which allows for an in-depth analysis of coexisting Andean and non-Native media. The book discusses the stories surrounding the creation of the Huarochirí Manuscript (c. 1598-1608), the only surviving book-length text written by Indigenous people in Quechua in the early colonial period. The manuscript has been deemed "untranslatable in all the usual senses," but scholar Laura Leon Llerena argues that it offers an important window into the meaning of legibility. The concept of legibility allows us to reconsider this unique manuscript within the intertwined histories of literacy, knowledge, and colonialism. Reading the Illegible shows that the anonymous author(s) of the Huarochirí Manuscript, along with two contemporaneous Andean-authored texts by Joan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti and Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, rewrote the history of writing and the notion of Christianity by deploying the colonizers' technology of alphabetic writing.Reading the Illegible weaves together the story of the peoples, places, objects, and media that surrounded the creation of the anonymous Huarochirí Manuscript to demonstrate how Andean people endowed the European technology of writing with a new social role in the context of a multimedia society"-- Provided by publisher

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As Long as the Earth Endures is an annotated collection of almost all of the known Native texts in Miami-Illinois, an Algonquian language of Indiana, Illinois, and Oklahoma. These texts, gathered from native speakers of Myaamia, Peoria, and Wea in the 1890s and the early twentieth century, span several genres, such as culture hero stories, trickster tales, animal stories, personal and historical narratives, how-to stories, and translations of Christian materials. These texts were collected from seven speakers: Frank Beaver, George Finley, Gabriel Godfroy, William Peconga, Thomas Richardville, Elizabeth Valley, and Sarah Wadsworth. Representing thirty years of study, almost all of the stories are published here for the first time. The texts are presented with their original transcriptions along with full, corrected modern transcriptions, translations, and grammatical analyses. Included with the texts are extensive annotation on all aspects of their meaning, pronunciation, and interpretation; a lengthy glossary explaining and analyzing in detail every word; and an introduction placing the texts in their philological, historical, linguistic, and folkloric context, with a discussion of how the stories compare to similar texts from neighboring Great Lakes Algonquian tribes. .
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"In Aztec Antichrist, Ben Leeming presents a transcription, translation, and study of two Nahuatl Antichrist plays that are likely the earliest surviving presentations of the Antichrist legend in the Americas, and possibly the earliest surviving play scripts in the whole of the New World in any language"-- Provided by publisher