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The Oxford guide to the languages of the Central Andes / edited by Matthias Urban.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Urban, Matthias
- Series:
- Oxford guides to the world's languages.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford guides to the world's languages
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Andes Region--Languages.
- Indians of South America.
- Andes Region--Languages.
- Andes Region.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1008 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Guide to the languages of the Central Andes
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford University Press 2025
- Summary:
- This volume presents the first comprehensive overview in English of the languages of the Central Andes, spoken primarily in Peru and Bolivia. Chapters provide detailed descriptions of individual languages and substantial typological comparative analyses, as well as coverage of language history, language contact, and sociolinguistics.
- Contents:
- Series Page Short contents Detailed contents Series preface List of abbreviations The contributors Part I: Background and context 1. Introduction: Central Andean linguistic diversity and the diversity of Central Andean linguistics 2. Physical geography and cultural trajectory of the Central Andes 3. Historical linguistics, philology, and the development of Andean linguistics PART II: Language profiles 4. Huaylas (Ancash) Quechua 5. Southern Yauyos Quechua 6. Chachapoyas Quechua 7. Cuzco Quechua 8. Aymara 9. Jaqaru 10. Uru and Chipaya 11. Mochica 12. Puquina 13. Híbito and Cholón 14. Small and extinct languages of Northern Peru 15. Kallawaya 16. The Andean Spanish of Southern Peru and Bolivia PART III: Comparative studies 17. Central Andean Segmental Phonologies in Continental Perspective 18. The morphology of the nominal domain in the languages of the Central Andes 19. The grammar of the verb in the languages of the Central Andes 20. Syntactic structures in the languages of the Central Andes 21. Discourse, information structure, and evidentiality in the Central Andes 22. Linguistic complexity in the Central Andes PART IV: Language history 23. Expansions and language shift in prehistory 24. Language ecologies and dynamics in the ancient Central Andes 25. Language diffusion and state agency: Quechuan in Inca and colonial times PART V: Language contact, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology 26. The Quechuan-Aymaran relationship 27. Contact between Indigenous languages of the Central Andes and Spanish: 28. Language ideologies and the Quechuan family 29. The Andean-Amazonian interface: Sociolinguistic relations and 30. Language and the Andean environment
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 9, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9780191884320
- 0191884324
- 9780192589804
- 0192589806
- OCLC:
- 1477766014
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