系列：美洲土著语言研究
这本书是Kotiria（Wanano）的第一部描述性语法，Kotiria是东图卡诺语系的一员，在哥伦比亚沃普斯河流域和亚马孙雨林西北部的巴西使用。科提里亚人在这个偏远地区生活了700多年，他们参与了复杂的瓦佩斯社会体系，其特点是长期的语言和文化互动。直到二十世纪初，科提里亚人一直相对孤立于主导社会，当时该地区外部影响力的增加引发了快速的社会和语言变化。如今，科蒂里亚人的人数只有大约1600人，他们的语言虽然仍在传统社区中使用，但面临着濒危的风险。
克里斯汀·斯滕泽尔与科蒂里亚斯合作八年，致力于推广、记录和振兴他们的语言。这本书与数十位母语人士合作，借鉴了大量口头叙述和书面文本，是对这种濒危语言的首次全面研究，也是该语系中为数不多的参考语法之一。
A Reference Grammar of Kotiria (Wanano)
Series: Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas
This volume is the first descriptive grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), a member of the eastern Tukanoan language family spoken in the Vaupes River basin of Colombia and Brazil in the northwest Amazon rain forest. The Kotirias, who have lived in this remote region for more than seven hundred years, participate in the complex Vaupés social system, characterized by long-standing linguistic and cultural interaction. The Kotirias remained relatively isolated from the dominant societies until the early part of the twentieth century, when increasing outside influence in the region triggered rapid social and linguistic change. Today the Kotirias number only about sixteen hundred people, and their language, though still used in traditional communities, is in risk of becoming endangered.
Kristine Stenzel draws on eight years of intensive work with the Kotirias to promote, record, and revitalize their language. Working with dozens of native speakers and drawing on numerous oral narratives and written texts, this book is the first comprehensive study of this endangered language and one of the few reference grammars of this language family.
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