Areal Diffusion in Northwest Amazonia: The Case of Tariana  

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Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 38 no. 1 (1996), page 73-116.
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The large linguistic area of the Vaupes River region in northwest Amazonia is characterized by obligatory multilingualism based on two principles of strict exogamy: "My brothers are those who share a language with me" and "We don't marry our sisters." Tariana is the only North Arawak language spoken in the Vaupes region. East Tucanoan languages spoken there are closely related and display a significant degree of structural similarity, as well as a strong inhibition against the "language-mixing" of lexical loans. This paper considers areal influences of East Tucanoan on Tariana phonology, grammatical structure, and semantics. It also discusses independent innovations in Tariana, in contrast to other North Arawak languages of the upper Rio Negro region, and language attrition phenomena. This investigation contributes both to the study of North Arawak languages of South America and to our understanding of areal diffusion of structural patterns in a relatively young linguistic area.

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