distributive and intensive: jene rae-raem "our screams [multiples]" je='a-je'at "my day to day, my everyday" mojepetepete "one by one" i-kana-kana “very crooked, all crooked" o-kytsi-kytsi "he cut a lot, shredded" Sample text The following sample is taken from Seki (2000), p. 438. It is a small excerpt of a folk take about hero Arawitará, who is summoned by his deceased friend to help the souls of the dead in their eternal war against the birds. Here Arawitará has returned to the world of the living, and his describing his journey to the friend's old mother. jererahame rake ko‘yt a‘ɳa rupi rak orohome ko‘yt jene peuan ikatu a‘ia ko‘ypy jawa‘ipaip ehe‘aɳ jajuw a‘e te a‘ia‘iw a‘iwĩ jene retama ko‘ypy jakatupe tete ne jene retama jaetsa ko‘ypy nite ne jawa‘iawa ko‘ypy kopiaip ehe‘aɳ jaju kwãj‘awan petsakame te jene retama ko‘ywa ipeiripyrera witene ipeiripyrera wite a‘ia‘iwine jeneretama ko‘ypy ojewunewunawa a‘iweru je wi kwãj okoj opiretepewewara ruri we "He [the deceased friend] took me [Araw.]. We went this way. Our straight path(*) is very beautiful Here we live among ugly weeds Ah, how beautiful is our [otherworldly] village! I saw the [otherworldly] village very clean(%), There is not even a single weed there! Here we live as in the path to the orchards($), folks! You should see our [otherworldly] village! It is like one which has been swept it is like one which has been swept a lot, our village The poor [souls] spat on the ground for my being there(#) 'Here comes someone who is still in his original skin.'" Notes: (*) "The straight path" (peu-) is the path followed by the souls of the deceased to reach the other world. (%) Kamayurá villages consist of a ring of houses surrounding a flat central plaza of packed dirt, which is kept clean and swept frequently. The village of the departed souls is impeccable in this regard. ($) The Kamayurá orchards are located at some distance from the village, and the path to them usually goes through the tropical the jungle. (#) The souls spat on the ground because the nauseating smell of the hero's living flesh made them sick. References Bibliography Books . This is a detailed, comprehensive, and readable description of the Kamayurá grammar, including a lexicon with ~1200 entries. Papers Lucy Seki, Kamaiurá (Tupi–Guarani) as an active–stative language. In D. L. Payne (ed.), Amazonian linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American languages,