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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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Backmatter