Publications

Publication details [#18839]

Nuckolls, Janis B. 1996. Sounds Like Life: Sound-Symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua. (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics 2). Oxford University Press. xiv + 298 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | grammar1 | performance1 | sound symbolism

Language as a subject

Quechua, Pastaza

Annotation

This book provides a detailed semantic and pragmatic analysis of characteristic Pastaza sound-symbolic forms, containing exotic features and remarkable syntactic possibilities possibly influenced by a local substratum.

Reviewed by

Adelaar, Willem F. H. 1998. Review of $Sounds Like Life: Sound-Symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua.

Howard-Malverde, Rosaleen. 1998. Review of $Sounds Like Life: Sound-Symbolic Grammar, Performance, and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua.