Language Change in South American Indian Languages / / ed. by Mary Ritchie Key.

South American Indian Languages are a particularly rich field for comparative study, and this book brings together some of the finest scholarship now being done in that area.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1991
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
Series:Anniversary Collection
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 25 illus.
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Foreword --
Acknowledgments --
I Introduction --
A Résumé of Comparative Studies in South American Indian Languages --
II Classification and Typological Problems --
How to Deal with Unclassified Languages: An Ethnolinguistic View of Comparative Linguistics --
Vowel Shift in the Tupi-Guarani Language Family: A Typological Approach --
A Spatial Model of Lexical Relationships Among Fourteen Cariban Varieties --
III Comparative Linguistics --
The Phonology of Ranquel and Phonological Comparisons with Other Mapuche Dialects --
Southern Peruvian Quechua Consonant Lenition --
IV Grammatical Matters --
Variations in Tense-Aspect Markers Among Inga (Quechuan) Dialects --
The Minimal Finite Verbal Paradigm in Mapuche or Araucanian at the End of the Sixteenth Century --
V Ethnolinguistics --
The Talátur: Ceremonial Chant of the Atacama People --
VI Distant Relationships --
Amazonian Origins and Affiliations of the Timucua Language --
Uto-Aztecan Affinities with Panoan of Peru I: Correspondences --
Appendix: Language Families --
Bibliography of Comparative Studies --
Contributors --
Index --
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Summary:South American Indian Languages are a particularly rich field for comparative study, and this book brings together some of the finest scholarship now being done in that area.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781512803068
9783110442526
DOI:10.9783/9781512803068
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Mary Ritchie Key.