Simon E Overall
Biographic Data
| ID | 1712563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon E Overall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon E |
| FAMILY NAME | Overall |
| SIGNATURE | OVERALL S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1322-118X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Parrots, peccaries, and people: Imagery and metaphor in Aguaruna (Chicham) magic songs
The western margin of the Amazon basin near the modern-day border between Ecuador and Peru is an area of notable linguistic and ethnic diversity, but the indigenous cultures also show considerable similarities, thanks to a long history of contact and mutual influence. One of the cultural traits of the area is a genre of “magic” songs used to ensure success in all kinds of activities, but especially romantic pursuits, hunting (for men), and garden…
Nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages
This volume explores typological variation within nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages. Using abundant data, generally from original and extensive fieldwork on under-described languages, it presents a far more detailed picture of nonverbal predication constructions than previously published grammatical descriptions. On the one hand, it addresses the fact that current typologies of nonverbal predication are less developed than those of ver…
Nominalization in Northwest Amazonia: Introduction
The chapters in this volume describe the forms and functions of deverbal nominalizations in a selection of indigenous languages of the northwest Amazon basin, with an eye the wider typological implications. We define nominalization as a process by which a non-nominal unit is converted into a nominal one through some derivational process. More pecifically, deverbal nominalization is the ability of a language to reify a verbal predicate and present…
Aguaruna
Extract] Aguaruna (ISO agr) is a language of the Chicham (Jivaroan) family spoken along the western portion of the Marañón River and the Potro, Mayo, and Cahuapanas rivers. This traditional story tells about how humans didn't know how to give birth in the mythological past. Instead, when a woman's baby was ready to be born, the father would cut her open and take the baby out, leaving the mother dead. Another story tells of how men originally had …
Who were the Antipa Jivaroans? A linguistic and ethnohistorical investigation of a forgotten tribe
The ethnonym Antipa was commonly mentioned as one of the major lowland Jivaroan (also known as Chicham) tribes of north Peru in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, before disappearing both from the historical record and from the oral history of the modern Jivaroan groups. This work presents insights gained by approaching the sparse historical data from a linguistic perspective. Taking into account documented linguistic evidence, the possible …
On the non-phonemic status of the velar nasal /ŋ/ in Jivaroan
The modern Jivaroan languages and the reconstructed proto language have all been assigned a velar nasal phoneme /ŋ/ by previous analysts. In this paper I argue that such an analysis is incorrect, and propose that the velar nasals in surface forms come from two sources. The first is assimilation of an underlying unspecified syllable-final nasal archiphoneme /N/ to a following velar stop /k/. The second concerns a group of velar nasals that surface…
On the non-phonemic status of the velar nasal /ŋ/ in Jivaroan
The modern Jivaroan languages and the reconstructed proto language have all been assigned a velar nasal phoneme /ŋ/ by previous analysts. In this paper I argue that such an analysis is incorrect, and propose that the velar nasals in surface forms come from two sources. The first is assimilation of an underlying unspecified syllable-final nasal archiphoneme /N/ to a following velar stop /k/. The second concerns a group of velar nasals that surface…
On the non-phonemic status of the velar nasal /ŋ/ in Jivaroan
The modern Jivaroan languages and the reconstructed proto language have all been assigned a velar nasal phoneme /ŋ/ by previous analysts. In this paper I argue that such an analysis is incorrect, and propose that the velar nasals in surface forms come from two sources. The first is assimilation of an underlying unspecified syllable-final nasal archiphoneme /N/ to a following velar stop /k/. The second concerns a group of velar nasals that surface…
Who were the Antipa Jivaroans? A linguistic and ethnohistorical investigation of a forgotten tribe
The ethnonym Antipa was commonly mentioned as one of the major lowland Jivaroan (also known as Chicham) tribes of north Peru in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, before disappearing both from the historical record and from the oral history of the modern Jivaroan groups. This work presents insights gained by approaching the sparse historical data from a linguistic perspective. Taking into account documented linguistic evidence, the possible …
Nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages
This volume explores typological variation within nonverbal predication in Amazonian languages. Using abundant data, generally from original and extensive fieldwork on under-described languages, it presents a far more detailed picture of nonverbal predication constructions than previously published grammatical descriptions. On the one hand, it addresses the fact that current typologies of nonverbal predication are less developed than those of ver…
Nominalization in Northwest Amazonia: Introduction
The chapters in this volume describe the forms and functions of deverbal nominalizations in a selection of indigenous languages of the northwest Amazon basin, with an eye the wider typological implications. We define nominalization as a process by which a non-nominal unit is converted into a nominal one through some derivational process. More pecifically, deverbal nominalization is the ability of a language to reify a verbal predicate and present…
Aguaruna
Extract] Aguaruna (ISO agr) is a language of the Chicham (Jivaroan) family spoken along the western portion of the Marañón River and the Potro, Mayo, and Cahuapanas rivers. This traditional story tells about how humans didn't know how to give birth in the mythological past. Instead, when a woman's baby was ready to be born, the father would cut her open and take the baby out, leaving the mother dead. Another story tells of how men originally had …
Parrots, peccaries, and people: Imagery and metaphor in Aguaruna (Chicham) magic songs
The western margin of the Amazon basin near the modern-day border between Ecuador and Peru is an area of notable linguistic and ethnic diversity, but the indigenous cultures also show considerable similarities, thanks to a long history of contact and mutual influence. One of the cultural traits of the area is a genre of “magic” songs used to ensure success in all kinds of activities, but especially romantic pursuits, hunting (for men), and garden…
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