Pre-Historical Language Contact in Peruvian Amazonia : A Dynamic Approach to Shawi (Kawapanan).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rojas-Berscia, Luis Miguel.

Series:

Contact Language Library

Contact Language Library ; v.58

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Languages in contact--Peru.

Languages in contact.

Shawi language--Grammar.

Shawi language.

Indians of South America--Amazon River Region--Languages.

Indians of South America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021.

Summary:

"South America was populated relatively recently, probably around 15,000 years ago. Yet, instead of finding a relatively small number of language families, we find some 118 genealogical units. So far, the historical processes that underlie the current picture are not yet fully understood. This book represents a preliminary attempt at understanding the socio-historical dynamics behind language diversification in the region, focusing on the Kawapanan languages, particularly on Shawi. The book provides an introduction to the ideas behind the flux approach of Dynamic linguistics and later concentrates on prehistorical language contact, specifically in the northern Peruvian Andean sphere. The number of studies presented shed light on a layered picture in which a number of Kawapanan lects were used in non-polyglosic multilingual settings. The book explores the potential contact relationships between Kawapanan languages, Quechuan, Aymaran, Chachapuya, Cholón-Hibito, Arawak, Carib and Puelche. The analysis draws on data collected in the field over a period of eight years (2012-2020) with both Shawi and Shiwilu speakers and includes the first comprehensive grammar sketch of Shawi"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

1.1 The South American paradox

1.2 Theoretical considerations: From trees to waves and the emergence of a speaker-centred approach

1.2.1 The emergence of the family tree model

1.2.2 Wave Theory and the speaker-centred approach

1.3 The glossography of power

1.4 Polylectal Internally Dynamic Competence: Towards a Flux approach

1.4.1 The rebirth of the Wave approach within Generative Semantics

1.4.2 A Flux approach, a first sketch

1.5 The present study

1.5.1 Main research questions

1.5.2 Structure of the book

The Shawi community

2.1 Introduction

2.2 The prehistorical Kawapanan area

2.3 The Jesuit Missions and the colonial society

2.4 Modern Shawi society

2.5 The impact of modern Western society

A short gramar of Shawi

3.1 Introduction

3.1.1 Structure

3.2 Languages, language varieties and speaker profiles

3.2.1 Dialectology and "family tree" structure

3.2.2 Glottonyms

3.3 Grammatical profile

3.4 Phonology

3.4.1 Phonemes

3.4.1.1 Details on pronunciation of consonants

3.4.1.2 Acoustic analysis of vowels

3.4.2 Syllable structure

3.4.3 Processes

3.5 Orthography

3.6 Open word classes

3.6.1 Nouns

3.6.1.1 Noun derivation

3.6.1.2 Noun inflection

3.6.1.2.1 Possessive markers

3.6.1.3 Oblique case system

3.6.1.4 The noun phrase

3.6.2 Verbs

3.6.2.1 Common morphological processes

3.6.2.2 Compound verbs and serial verbs

3.6.2.3 Associated motion and related phenomena

3.7 Closed word classes

3.7.1 Adjectives

3.7.2 Pronouns

3.7.3 Deictics

3.7.4 Numerals

3.7.4.1 Numeral classifiers

3.7.5 Adverbs

3.7.6 Conjunctions

3.7.7 Interjections

3.8 Major morpho-syntactic processes

3.8.1 Valency changing operations

3.8.2 Nominalisation

3.8.2.1 Strong nominalisations.

3.8.2.2 Weak nominalisations

3.8.3 Grammatical relations and alignment

3.8.3.1 Case marking in Shawi

3.8.3.2 Participant reference marking in Shawi

3.8.4 Discourse elements

The history of Kawapanan pronouns, a first Bayesian phylogenetic analysis

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Using phoneme-level data in phylogenetic reconstructions

4.3 Methods

4.4 Results

4.4.1 Examples

4.5 Discussion

4.5.1 The Kawapanan-Puelche hypothesis and beyond

4.6 Discussion

Kawapanan in its geographical context1

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The Farming-Agricultural Flux, the Chavín type?

5.2.1 The Andean non-future and Subject Raising

5.2.2 Some other features

5.3 Further uphill, the Carib and Chachapuya elements in Kawapanan

5.4 The Arawak trade route Flux

5.4.1 The Arawak Matrix

5.4.2 The Arawak lexicon in Kawapanan

5.4.3 Predicate Raising and branching directionality change

5.4.4 The alienable/inalienable distinction

5.5 The Jivaroan wars Flux

5.6 Final ideas

Shawi disassembled

6.1 From the first settlement to the consolidation of Shawi vernaculars

6.2 A timeline of Fluxes for the linguistic history of Kawapanan

6.3 Avenues of future research

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

OCLC:

1238127859