South American Indian Languages: Retrospect and Prospect

Published by University of Texas Press 1985

South American Indian Languages

Retrospect and Prospect

Edited by: Harriet E. Manelis Klein and Louisa R. Stark

In the series Texas Linguistics Series

https://doi.org/10.7560/775923

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About this book

This book fills the crucial need for a single volume that gives broad coverage and synthesizes findings for both the general reader and the specialist. 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 prospects for future investigation.

Of interest not only to linguists but also to anthropologists, historians, and geographers, South American Indian Languages offers a wide perspective, both temporal and regional, on an area noted for its enormous linguistic diversity and for the lack of knowledge of its indigenous languages. An invaluable source book and reference tool, its appearance is especially timely when exploitation of the rich natural resources in a number of areas in South America must surely result in the demise and/or acculturation of some indigenous groups.

Author / Editor information

Harriet E. Manelis Klein is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Montclair State College in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.Louisa R. Stark was Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University in Tempe.

Reviews

Many 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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
SOUTH AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES
Introduction Harriet E. Manelis Klein and Louisa R. Stark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Indigenous Languages of Lowland South America
1. Languages of the Orinoco-Amazon Region: Current Status Ernest C. Migliazza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. An Emerging Tukanoan Linguistic Regionality: Policy Pressures Arthur P. Sorensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
3. Indigenous Languages of Lowland Ecuador: History and Current Status Louisa R. Stark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
4. Indigenous Languages of Lowland Peru: History and Current Status Mary Ruth Wise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
5. Panoan Linguistic, Folkloristic and Ethnographic Research: Retrospect and Prospect Kenneth M. Kensinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
6. Some Macro-Je Relationships Irvine Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
7. Nambiquara Languages: Linguistic and Geographical Distance between Speech Communities David Price Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
8. A Survey of the Carib Language Family Marshall Durbin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
9. Evidence for Tupi-Carib Relationships Aryon D. Rodrigues Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
10. The Present State of the Study of Brazilian Indian Languages Aryon D. Rodrigues Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
Part II. Indigenous Languages of the Andes
11. Ecuadorian Highland Quechua: History and Current Status Louisa R. Stark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	441
12. Southern Peruvian Quechua Bruce Mannheim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
13. The Quechua Language in Bolivia Louisa R. Stark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	516
14. A Critical Survey of the Literature on the Aymara Language Lucy Therina Briggs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	546
15. Dialectical Variation in Aymara Lucy Therina Briggs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	595
16. Aymara and Quechua: Languages in Contact M. J. Hardman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	617
17. Contact and Quechua-External Genetic Relationships Bruce Mannheim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	644
Part III. Indigenous Languages of Southern and Eastern South America
18. Current Status of Argentine Indigenous Languages Harriet E. Manelis Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	689
19. History of the Quichua of Santiago del Estero Louisa R. Stark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	732
20. Indigenous Languages of Tierra del Fuego Christos Clairis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	753
21. Mapuche Dialect Survey Robert A. Croese Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	784
22. Indian Languages of the Paraguayan Chaco Harriet E. Manelis Klein and Louisa R. Stark Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	802
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	847

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 870

eBook

Published: July 29, 2014
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