Language Change in South American Indian Languages
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Language Change in South American Indian Languages

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Language Change in South American Indian Languages

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. I Introduction
  5. A Résumé of Comparative Studies in South American Indian Languages
  6. II Classification and Typological Problems
  7. How to Deal with Unclassified Languages: An Ethnolinguistic View of Comparative Linguistics
  8. Vowel Shift in the Tupi-Guarani Language Family: A Typological Approach
  9. A Spatial Model of Lexical Relationships Among Fourteen Cariban Varieties
  10. III Comparative Linguistics
  11. The Phonology of Ranquel and Phonological Comparisons with Other Mapuche Dialects
  12. Southern Peruvian Quechua Consonant Lenition
  13. IV Grammatical Matters
  14. Variations in Tense-Aspect Markers Among Inga (Quechuan) Dialects
  15. The Minimal Finite Verbal Paradigm in Mapuche or Araucanian at the End of the Sixteenth Century
  16. V Ethnolinguistics
  17. The Talátur: Ceremonial Chant of the Atacama People
  18. VI Distant Relationships
  19. Amazonian Origins and Affiliations of the Timucua Language
  20. Uto-Aztecan Affinities with Panoan of Peru I: Correspondences
  21. Appendix: Language Families
  22. Bibliography of Comparative Studies
  23. Contributors
  24. Index