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Book SynopsisThis book examines the historical linguistic panorama of Western South America, focusing on the minor languages that were partially or fully replaced by the expansion of the Quechuan family through the region.
The author presents a coherent and generally applicable framework for studying prehistoric language shift processes and reconstructing earlier linguistic landscapes before significant language spreads ousted former patterns of linguistic diversity. This framework combines toponymic evidence with the analysis of substrate contact effects, and, in some cases, extralinguistic evidence, to create an integrated if incomplete of extinct and undocumented languages. In an authoritative exploration of case studies, concerning Aymara in parts of Southern Peru, Cañar in Ecuador, and Chacha in Northern Peru, the book shows how the identities of lost languages and earlier linguistic panoramas can be reconstructed.
Table of Contents1. Linguistic stratigraphy, or how to recover traces of lost languages2. The Central Andean linguistic landscape through time and the Quechuan language family2.1. The ever-changing cultural and linguistic landscapes of the Central Andes2.2. Quechua today2.3. The classification of Quechua2.4. The Quechua expansion2.5. The non-Quechua linguistic diversity3. Evidence and methods for investigating substratal languages3.1. Introduction3.2. Toponyms and anthroponyms3.3 Substrate influence3.4 Substrate vocabulary3.5. Extralinguistic evidence3.6. Summary4. The Aymara presence in Southern Peru4.1. Introduction4.2. Toponymy4.3. Substrate effects4.4. Substrate vocabulary4.5. Perspectives from outside linguistics4.6. Summary5. The Barbacoan languages and the southern Ecuadorian highlands5.1. Introduction5.2. Toponymy5.2.1. Characteristic toponymy of Cañar and Azuay5.2.2. Continuous northward extensions of Cañar and Azuay toponymic endings5.2.3. Noncontinuous northward extensions of Cañar and Azuay toponymic endings to the Ecuadorian-Colombian border5.2.4. Northward extensions of phonological characteristics of Cañar and Azuay toponyms5.3. Substrate effects5.4. Substrate vocabulary5.5. Summary6. Chachapoyas6.1. Introduction6.2. Toponymy6.3. Substrate effects6.4. Substrate vocabulary6.5. Perspectives from outside linguistics6.6. Summary7. Synopsis and conclusionReferences
