A grammar of Hup

Epps, Patience

doi:10.18130/v3fp1m

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“…Ideophones are MARKED in the sense that they stand out from other words. Claims about the marked nature of ideophones abound in the literature: ideophones are "very striking" (Vidal 1852:15 on Yoruba), "distinguished by their aberrant phonology" (Kruspe 2004:102 on Semelai), "structurally marked" (Klamer 2002:263 on Kambera), "phonologically peculiar" (Newman 1968:107 on Hausa), and show "distinctive phonology, involving special rules of length, tone, and stress" (Epps 2005:869 on Hup), to take just five typologically divergent languages from all over the world. Of course, what is marked in one linguistic system may not be marked in another.…”

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Advances in the Cross‐Linguistic Study of Ideophones

Dingemanse

2012

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Ideophones are marked words that depict sensory imagery found in many of the world's languages. They are noted for their special forms, distinct grammatical behaviour, rich sensory meanings, and interactional uses related to experience and evidentiality. This review surveys recent developments in ideophone research. Work on the semiotics of ideophones helps explain why they are marked and how they realise the depictive potential of speech. A true semantic typology of ideophone systems is coming within reach through a combination of language-internal analyses and language-independent elicitation tools. Documentation of ideophones in a wide variety of genres as well as sequential analysis of ideophone use in natural discourse leads to new insights about their interactional uses and about their relation to other linguistic devices like reported speech and grammatical evidentials. As the study of ideophones is coming of age, it sheds new light on what is possible and probable in human language.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Advances in the Cross‐Linguistic Study of Ideophones

Dingemanse

2012

Language and Linguist. Compass

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“…As Hurford (1987: 83) has remarked, "one can 'read' the history of a [numeral] system, just like the history of an old building, from the contrasting style of its pieces, from the 25. Other lexical data also support this hypothesis (see Epps 2005a). It would be interesting to compare the story of numeral development in the Nadahup languages with that in languages spoken by peoples who reverted to a foraging lifestyle from an agricultural one, such as the Yaqui of Bolivia or the Guajá of Brazil (both Tupi-Guarani peoples).…”

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Growing a numeral system

Epps

2006

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Numerals in many languages around the world can be argued to reflect a progressive build-up of historical stages (cf. Hurford 1987), each of which may also represent the synchronic upper limit of a numeral system in another language. This paper presents an intriguing test case of this claim by exploring the historical development of numerals in the languages of the Nadahup (Makú) family of the northwest Amazonian Vaupés region, in which the numeral strategies that can be inferred diachronically for one language are also represented synchronically in its sisters. The paper also demonstrates that even the most basic of the Nadahup numerals have transparent etymologies (a cross-linguistically unusual feature suggestive of their relatively recent development), and that areal diffusion contributed to the expansion of the systems, supporting the characterization of the Vaupés as a linguistic area.

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“…Até o momento duas propostas para a família linguística se sobressaíram. Epps (2005) propõe o nome Nadahup, cuja família é composta por nadeb, yuhup, hupdah e dâw. O nome é uma junção abreviada das línguas que compõe o conjunto.…”

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A Plasticidade Maku

Lolli

2016

Ilha R. Antropologia

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8034.2016v18n2p177A região do Alto Rio Negro é reconhecida como uma área habitada por uma diversidade de grupos sociais. A literatura aponta a existência de 21 nomes distintos para grupos divididos a partir de três grandes famílias linguísticas:Aruak, Tukano e Maku. O objetivo do artigo é problematizar o nome Maku de forma a examinar quais as escalas de atuação desse nome dentro dessa rede regional de nomes coletivos. Em que sentido pode-se dizer que alguém é Maku? Quem o pode dizer? Em quais situações? Como experimento para desenvolver tais questões propõese examinar as imagens dos Maku fornecidas por escritos de viajantes e cientistas do século XIX e analisar os seus desdobramentos em monografias etnográficas realizadas ao longo do século XX e que se referem aos Maku. Por fim, reflete-se sobre o problema de se tomar o nome Maku como uma unidade sociológica e/ou linguística.

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A grammar of Hup

Cited by 10 publications

References 36 publications

Advances in the Cross‐Linguistic Study of Ideophones

Advances in the Cross‐Linguistic Study of Ideophones

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