New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 705 с. — (Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions). — ISBN: 978-0-521-82664-8 (hardback), 978-0-521-02886-8 (paperback). This is a comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from a remote region in the northwest Amazonianjungle. Its speakers traditionally marry someone speaking a different language, and as...
University of Pittsburgh, 1998. — xi, 310 p. Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy This work presents a linguistic description of Mocovi. a Southern Waikunian language spoken in the Chaco region in Argentina. with special emphasis on the inflectional morphology of noun and verb...
Диссертация. — Rice University; Ann Arbor: UMI, 2006. — 464 p. Wayana is a Cariban language spoken in northern Brazil, southern Surinam, and southern French Guyana by a total of around 900 speakers. The previous descriptive works on this language consist of a few vocabulary lists, a short grammar sketch, and a few articles on specific topics. This dissertation contributes to...
Монография. — 1-е изд. — Entre Ríos, Paraná: Dirección Editorial de Entre Ríos, 2013. — 145 с. — ISBN: 978-950-686-039-4. Описание и словарь языка чана (чарруанская семья).
PhD Dissertation. — Houston: Rice University, 1999. — 730 p. Грамматика языка тирийо (карибская семья). The Tiriyo language has approximately 2,000 speakers (whose autodenomination is tareno [tare:nc], the term tiriyo or trio being of uncertain origin) who live in lowland South America, on both sides of the border between Brazil and Surinam. Like most other languages of the...
Nijmegen: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2006. — XII, 361 p. The Yurakaré Indians form a small indigenous group that lives in the foothill area of central Bolivia. Their language, Yurakaré, is one of the many languages in an area that is a complicated puzzle of seemingly unrelated languages. The objective of this book is to give a grammatical description of the Yurakaré...
Диссертация. — Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1999. — 481 с. Trumai is a genetic isolate language spoken in Brazil. This grammar describes the main aspects of Trumai, with hopes of contributing to typological studies. In describing and analyzing the linguistic data, I begin with synchrony, but I sometimes utilize internal reconstruction to help understand certain grammatical patterns....