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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Anniversary CollectionPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1991Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) : 25 illusContent type:
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  • 9780812230604
  • 9781512803068
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  • 498 20/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
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
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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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