Amazonian Quichua Language and Life

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.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: Self and OtherLesson 1: The most basic verbal interactionsLesson 2: Expressing ideas of beingLesson 3: Talking about familyLesson 4: Types of questionsLesson 5: Affirming, negating and evadingLesson 6: Articulating the perspectives of self and otherLesson 7: Human and nonhuman bodiesLesson 8: Expressing thoughts, feelings, processes, and enumerationLesson 9: Suffixes of instrumentality, accompaniment and the imperativesLesson 10: Suffixes of Togetherness, Separateness, and ExclusivityPart 2: Space and TimeLesson 11: Purpose, directionality, duration, colorLesson 12: Attribution, location, past tenseLesson 13: Habituality, complex movement suffixes, delimitationLesson 14: The Co-reference suffix -shaLesson 15: The Switch-Reference suffix -kpiLesson 16: The Present Perfect -shkaLesson 17: Talking about the future Lesson 18: Varieties of compound verbsLesson 19: Conditionality, ordering and connecting ideasLesson 20: Evidentiality, speech reports, Inchoative -ya, and Purposive -chunVocabularyBibliography

"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."