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Book SynopsisThis 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
Trade ReviewMany grammars and/or dictionaries of heretofore undescribed languages have recently become available, and advances have been made in the understanding of the linguistic history of various families and regions of South America. This volume makes a truly important contribution in assessing this work and making it more accessible.... this is an excellent and important book which will undoubtedly remain a basic reference on South American linguistics for years to come. * SLAA Newsletter *
Table of Contents
- 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
