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South American Indian Languages Retrospect and Prospect

This collection of twenty-two essays from fifteen well-known scholars presents linguistic research on the indigenous languages of South America, surveying past research, providing data and analysis gathered from past and current research, and suggesting p
eBook, English, 1985
University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 1985
1 Online-Ressource (871 Seiten)
9781477300251, 9780292737327, 1477300252, 0292737327
1031124407
Introduction (Harriet E. Manelis Klein and Louisa R. Stark) Part I. Indigenous Languages of Lowland South America 1. Languages of the Orinoco-Amazon Region: Current Status (Ernest C. Migliazza) 2. An Emerging Tukanoan Linguistic Regionality: Policy Pressures (Arthur P. Sorensen) 3. Indigenous Languages of Lowland Ecuador: History and Current Status (Louisa R. Stark) 4. Indigenous Languages of Lowland Peru: History and Current Status (Mary Ruth Wise) 5. Panoan Linguistic, Folkloristic and Ethnographic Research: Retrospect and Prospect (Kenneth M. Kensinger) 6. Some Macro-Jê Relationships (Irvine Davis) 7. Nambiquara Languages: Linguistic and Geographical Distance between Speech Communities (David Price) 8. A Survey of the Carib Language Family (Marshall Durbin) 9. Evidence for Tupi-Carib Relationships (Aryon D. Rodrigues) 10. The Present State of the Study of Brazilian Indian Languages (Aryon D. Rodrigues) Part II. Indigenous Languages of the Andes 11. Ecuadorian Highland Quechua: History and Current Status (Louisa R. Stark) 12. Southern Peruvian Quechua (Bruce Mannheim) 13. The Quechua Language in Bolivia (Louisa R. Stark) 14. A Critical Survey of the Literature on the Aymara Language (Lucy Therina Briggs) 15. Dialectical Variation in Aymara (Lucy Therina Briggs) 16. Aymara and Quechua: Languages in Contact (M. J. Hardman) 17. Contact and Quechua-External Genetic Relationships (Bruce Mannheim) Part III. Indigenous Languages of Southern and Eastern South America 18. Current Status of Argentine Indigenous Languages (Harriet E. Manelis Klein) 19. History of the Quichua of Santiago del Estero (Louisa R. Stark) 20. Indigenous Languages of Tierra del Fuego (Christos Clairis) 21. Mapuche Dialect Survey (Robert A. Croese) 22. Indian Languages of the Paraguayan Chaco (Harriet E. Manelis Klein and Louisa R. Stark) Index