Shipibo-Conibo: introduction to an indigenous language of the Peruvian Amazon 4206-FL107
1. The Shipibo-Conibo culture. The Shipibo language. Introduction (with an ethno-linguistic experiment).
2. Mood, verb and personal pronouns. --- Indicative mood, verbal suffixes, possessive pronouns, article, interrogative form, order of phrases.
3. Verbal suffixes, imperative mood, auxiliaries. --- Modifying suffixes.
4. Subject of a transitive verb (ergative), circumstantial complement of manner, understood subject or direct complement. --- Word order in a sentence.
5. Past tense, future tense. --- Order of temporal suffixes.
6. Subjunctive mood, pronouns of circumstantial complement. --- Subordinate clauses.
7. Revision and exercises.
8. Exam: analysis, translation, interpretation.
Type of course
Bibliography
A: cultura
Behrens, Clifford A.,
1994
Shipibo. In: D. Levinson, Hg., Encyclopedia of World Cultures, vol. 7 (South America, J. Wilbert, Hg.): 303-306. New York.
Roe, Peter G.
1982
The cosmic zygote. New Brunswick.
B: idioma
Faust, Norma
1990 [1973]
Lecciones para el aprendizaje del idioma shipibo-conibo. Yarinacocha, Perú. [Cada participante recibirá una copia completa.]
Illius, Bruno
1999
Das Shipibo: Texte, Kontexte, Kommentare. Berlin. [Una selección de textos originales será copiada para todos los participantes.]
Loriot, James, et al.
1993 Diccionario Shipibo-Castellano. Yarinacocha, Peru.
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