Campbell / Grondona The Indigenous Languages of South America

A Comprehensive Guide
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-025803-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 761 Seiten

Reihe: The World of Linguistics [WOL]

is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings in most areas of linguistics. Though formerly one of the linguistically least known areas of the world, extensive descriptive and historical linguistic research in recent years has expanded knowledge greatly. These advances are represented in this volume in indepth treatments by the foremost scholars in the field, with chapters on the history of investigation, language classification, language endangerment, language contact, typology, phonology and phonetics, and on major language families and regions of South America.

Zielgruppe

Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate Students of Linguistics, inte

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campbell, Lyle

Grondona, Verónica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Ethnolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Table of contents;6
2;List of contributors;8
3;Preface;10
4;Historical overview: Descriptive and comparative research on South American Indian languages;14
5;Classification of the indigenous languages of South America;72
6;Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking;180
7;Contacts between indigenous languages in South America;248
8;Typological characteristics of South American indigenous languages;272
9;The phonetics and phonology of South American languages;344
10;Chibchan languages;404
11;Linguistic studies in the Cariban family;454
12;Tupían;508
13;Languages of the Middle Andes in areal-typological perspective: Emphasis on Quechuan and Aymaran;588
14;Languages of the Chaco and Southern Cone;638
15;Index;682

Über Autor(innen)

Lyle Campbell, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA;Verónica Grondona, Eastern Michigan University, USA.

Lyle Campbell, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA;Verónica Grondona, Eastern Michigan University, USA.