Vom Roroima zum Orinoco - 9781108006286

Vom Roroima zum OrinocoErgebnisse einer Reise in Nordbrasilien und Venezuela in den Jahren 19111913\nAuthor(s): Theodor Koch-Grnberg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108006286, 978-1108006286\nSynopsis\nTheodor Koch-Grnberg [tel] was a noted German ethnologist and explorer whose work on the indigenous peoples of Brazil and Venezuela is still consulted by anthropologists, ethnologists and linguists. His most important book is this five-volume account of his expedition of [tel] from the sandstone mountains bordering Brazil, Venezuela and Guyana through uncharted territory westwards to the Orinoco. Volume 4 contains the linguistic data collected on the expedition, including a grammatical description of Taulipng (Taurepan) with word lists and texts. Eighteen further languages and dialects, seven of them previously unknown, are also represented, mostly by word lists with phonetic transcriptions usi.