SIL International Media Release
Fifty years in Brazil—a compendium in tribute to its ethnolinguistic communities
(January 2009) After 50 years of cooperation with Brazilian academic institutions and government agencies, SIL has published a book in tribute to Brazil's ethnolinguistic minorities. It presents 16 articles that exemplify the contributions of SIL in Brazil to the fields of linguistics and related disciplines, especially applied linguistics.
The book, Fifty years in Brazil: A sampler of SIL work 1958–2008, is edited by Mary Ruth Wise, Robert A. Dooley and Isabel Murphy. It will appeal to local audiences interested in their own languages and cultures as well as to linguists, anthropologists and officials with an interest in Brazil. Each chapter is introduced by the editors in both English and Portuguese.
This volume includes a history of SIL's 50 years in Brazil. Papers describing at least some aspects of the grammar of almost all languages studied by SIL field linguists are listed in the selected bibliography.
Chapters
- Apresentação (Foreword) by Francisco Gomes de Matos
- Introduction by Mary Ruth Wise
- SIL—50 Anos no Brasil by Isaac Costa de Souza
- Desmond Derbyshire (1924–2007) by Geoffrey K. Pullum
- Word Order Universals and the Existence of OVS Languages by Desmond C. Derbyshire
- Syntactic Typology by Desmond C. Derbyshire
- Os Parágrafos Gramaticais, Fonológicos e Léxicais na Língua Kaiwá by Loraine I. Bridgeman
- Network Diagramming Applied to Translation by Margaret Sheffler
- Marked Topicalization Processes in Nambiquara by Ivan Lowe
- When Switch Reference Moves to Discourse by Robert A. Dooley
- Análise do Discurso e Estudo da Gramática by Ursula Wiesemann
- Mamaindé Coda Processes by Dave Eberhard
- Exemplos do Dicionário Parintintín-Português Português-Parintintín by LaVera Betts, Compiladora
- A Snapshot of Indians and Culture Areas of Mid-Twentieth Century Brazil by Dale W. Kietzman
- Uma Seleção de Dados de Ofaié by Sarah C. Gudschinsky
- Excerpts from Cross-Referencing Changes in Some Tupí-Guaraní Languages by Cheryl Jensen
- On Surui Social Organization by Carolyn Bontkes and William R. Merrifield
- Interpretação de Segmentos e Seqüências de Segmentos Ambivalentes by Gloria E. Kindell
- O Novo Ritual Kayapó de Educação by Isabel Murphy
- Bibliografia Selecionada da SIL-Brasil by Kathleen Jefferson e Alan R. Vogel, Compiladores
Related links of interest
- Buy it
- Obituary of Desmond Derbyshire
- Languages of Brazil listed in the Ethnologue
- SIL publications on languages and cultures of Brazil
- Other academic publications from SIL