Language Change in South American Indian Languages /
Language Change in South American Indian Languages /
ed. by Mary Ritchie Key.
- Reprint 2016
- 1 online resource (312 p.) : 25 illus.
- Anniversary Collection .
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812230604 9781512803068
10.9783/9781512803068 doi
Comparative linguistics.
Indians of South America--Languages--Classification.
Indians of South America--Languages--Grammar.
Linguistic change.
Anthropology.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative.
Anthropology. Folklore. Linguistics. Philology and Linguistics.
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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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812230604 9781512803068
10.9783/9781512803068 doi
Comparative linguistics.
Indians of South America--Languages--Classification.
Indians of South America--Languages--Grammar.
Linguistic change.
Anthropology.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative.
Anthropology. Folklore. Linguistics. Philology and Linguistics.
498