South American Indian Languages : : Retrospect and Prospect / / ed. by Louisa R. Stark, Harriet E. Manelis Klein.
This book fills the crucial need for a single volume that gives broad coverage and synthesizes findings for both the general reader and the specialist. This collection of twenty-two essays from fifteen well-known scholars presents linguistic research on the indigenous languages of South America, sur...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1985 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Texas Linguistics Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (870 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- SOUTH AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES
- Introduction
- Part I. Indigenous Languages of Lowland South America
- 1. Languages of the Orinoco-Amazon Region: Current Status
- 2. An Emerging Tukanoan Linguistic Regionality: Policy Pressures
- 3. Indigenous Languages of Lowland Ecuador: History and Current Status
- 4. Indigenous Languages of Lowland Peru: History and Current Status
- 5. Panoan Linguistic, Folkloristic and Ethnographic Research: Retrospect and Prospect
- 6. Some Macro-Je Relationships
- 7. Nambiquara Languages: Linguistic and Geographical Distance between Speech Communities
- 8. A Survey of the Carib Language Family
- 9. Evidence for Tupi-Carib Relationships
- 10. The Present State of the Study of Brazilian Indian Languages
- Part II. Indigenous Languages of the Andes
- 11. Ecuadorian Highland Quechua: History and Current Status
- 12. Southern Peruvian Quechua
- 13. The Quechua Language in Bolivia
- 14. A Critical Survey of the Literature on the Aymara Language
- 15. Dialectical Variation in Aymara
- 16. Aymara and Quechua: Languages in Contact
- 17. Contact and Quechua-External Genetic Relationships
- Part III. Indigenous Languages of Southern and Eastern South America
- 18. Current Status of Argentine Indigenous Languages
- 19. History of the Quichua of Santiago del Estero
- 20. Indigenous Languages of Tierra del Fuego
- 21. Mapuche Dialect Survey
- 22. Indian Languages of the Paraguayan Chaco
- Index