Reduplication in Indigenous Languages of South America

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27240-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 478 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 862 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

The morphological process of reduplication occurs in languages throughout the world. Reduplication in indigenous languages of South America is the first volume to focus on reduplication in South America. The indigenous languages of South America remain under-documented and little accessible to theoretical linguistics. Most regions and language families of the continent are represented in articles based on recent fieldwork by the authors. Included are data concerning a diverse set of reduplication phenomena from the Andes, Amazonia, and other regions of the continent. A wide range of language families and isolates are discussed, such as Tupian, Quechuan, Mapuche, Tacanan, Arawakan, Barbacoan, and Macro-Jê. Several languages present unusual properties, some of which violate presumed universals, such as no partial without full reduplication.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodwin Gómez, Gale

Voort, Hein Van Der

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Gale Goodwin Gómez, Ph.D. (1990) Columbia University, is Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College, Providence. Her publications include co-authored books: URIHI A: A terra-floresta Yanomami (2009), Yanomami: A Forest People (1999), and Saúde Yanomami: Um manual etnolingüístico (1997).

Hein van der Voort, Ph.D. (2000), Universiteit Leiden, is associate researcher at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil. He has published books and articles on Amazonian, Arctic, Romani, Pidgin and Creole langauges, including A grammar of Kwaza (2004).

Contributors are Aline da Cruz, Antonio Díaz-Fernández, Wolf Dietrich, Sebastian Drude, Patience Epps, Simeon Floyd, Gale Goodwin Gómez, Antoine Guillaume, Raquel Guirardello, Katja Hannss, Katharina Haude, Pieter Muysken, Françoise Rose, Andrés Pablo Salanova, Luciana Storto, Hein van der Voort and Fernando Zuñiga.