{"product_id":"amazonian-quichua-language-and-life-introduction-to-grammar-ecology-and-discourse-from-pastaza-and-upper-napo-ecuador-9781793616210","title":"Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Pieter Muysken, Radboud University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Georgia Ennis, Penn State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1: Self and Other\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 1: The most basic verbal interactions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 2: Expressing ideas of being\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 3: Talking about family\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 4: Types of questions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 5: Affirming, negating and evading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 6: Articulating the perspectives of self and other\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 7: Human and nonhuman bodies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 8: Expressing thoughts, feelings, processes, and enumeration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 9: Suffixes of instrumentality, accompaniment and the imperatives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 10: Suffixes of Togetherness, Separateness, and Exclusivity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2: Space and Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 11: Purpose, directionality, duration, color\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 12: Attribution, location, past tense\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 13: Habituality, complex movement suffixes, delimitation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 14: The Co-reference suffix -sha\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 15: The Switch-Reference suffix -kpi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 16: The Present Perfect -shka\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 17: Talking about the future \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 18: Varieties of compound verbs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 19: Conditionality, ordering and connecting ideas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLesson 20: Evidentiality, speech reports, Inchoative -ya, and Purposive -chun\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVocabulary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042636267863,"sku":"9781793616210","price":28.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793616210.jpg?v=1750954953","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/amazonian-quichua-language-and-life-introduction-to-grammar-ecology-and-discourse-from-pastaza-and-upper-napo-ecuador-9781793616210","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}