Workpapers Concerning Waorani Discourse Features
Author(s):
Pike, Evelyn G. and Rachel Saint, editors Description:
The papers in this volume are based on sixty-three pages of folktale and historical text in the Waorani language, which is a language of Ecuador.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Abbreviations and Symbols
References
Part I: Some Grammatical Structures of Discourse
- Michael Miller: What Can Mark the Peak of a Story?
- Deborah Ross: Chronological and Logical Discourse Chains
- Carol Hepner: Hypothesis on Helping to Identify Waorani Discourse Types
- Mary E. Holman: The Function of ayæ 'then' in Waorani
- Mark Hepner: Thematic Unity as Evidence for the Presence of Paragraphs
Part II: Some Grammatical Structures from Discourse to Morpheme Classes
- Evelyn G. Pike: Trees for Constituent Analysis, from Discourse to Morpheme
- Patricia Wilkendorf: Waorani Clauses
- Thomas W. Holman: Waorani Verb Affixes
Part III: Some Referential Structures of Discourse
- Patricia Wilkendorf: Notes on Referential Elements in Three Texts
- Leoma Gilley: How to Know What to Remember - Affixal Clues
- Lynn Zander: Keeping Track of Participants Where They Are Not Named
- Timothy Wilt: Prominence of Waves of Space and Time
Part IV: The Texts
- The Origina of the Rainbow by Dayuma
- The Jaguar and the Turtle by Giketa
- The Origin of the Corn Bees by Dayuma
- The Origin of Cassava by Dayuma
- The Spider Monkey's Tail by Giketa
- The Spider Monkey's Thumbs by Giketa
- The Tapir by Giketa
- The Alligator and the Bird by Giketa
- Bluebird's Report by Wiña
- Waorani Earholes by Akawo
Series:
Issue Date:
1988
Extent:
xx, 168 pages
ISBN 13:
978-0883126257
Subject:
Discourse Description
Discourse Analysis
ISBN 10:
0883126257
Size:
6 × 9 × 0.4 in
Weight:
0.6 lb
Publication Category:
Field:
Country:
Ecuador
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