Description
Book SynopsisA synthesis of the history of Southern Peruvian Quechua since the Spanish invasion, providing insights into the nature of language change in general, into the social and historical contexts of language change, and into the cultural conditioning of linguis
Trade ReviewMannheim has done a masterful job of interpreting Quechua sound change within a culturally sensitive and sociohistorically realistic frame. * Language in Society *
... has all the makings of a classical text. * Latin American Anthropology Review *
Table of Contents
- Foreword by Paul Friedrich
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Orthography and Citations
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. The Historical and Social Setting
- 2. The Ecology of Language Contact before the European Invasion
- 3. Language and Colonialism
- 4. Linguistic Hegemony and the Two Dimensions of Language Variation
- Part II. Linguistic Change
- 5. Common Southern Peruvian Quechua
- 6. Reading Colonial Texts
- 7. The Sibilants
- 8. The Ejectives and Aspirates
- 9. Syllable-Final Weakenings
- 10. Conditions on Sound Change
- Appendices
- 1. Southern Peruvian Quechua Practical Orthography
- 2. Special Characters and Other Special Symbols
- 3. Abbreviations
- 4. Glossary
- 5. Political Chronology
- Notes
- References Cited
- Index
