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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 hig...

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Author:   Janis B. Nuckolls ,  Tod D. Swanson
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.553kg
ISBN:  

9781793616197

ISBN 10:   1793616191
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   21 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

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 -chun Vocabulary Bibliography

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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. -- Pieter Muysken, Radboud University

Author Information

Janis Nuckolls is professor of anthropological linguistics at Brigham Young University Tod Swanson is associate professor in the faculty of religious studies at Arizona State University.

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