South American Indian languages : retrospect and prospect / edited by Harriet E. Manelis Klein and Louisa R. Stark.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Manelis Klein, Harriet E., editor.

Stark, Louisa R. (Louisa Rowell), editor.

Series:

Texas linguistics series.

Texas Linguistics Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Languages.

Indians of South America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (871 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 1985.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

SOUTH AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES

Introduction

Part I. Indigenous Languages of Lowland South America

1. Languages of the Orinoco-Amazon Region: Current Status

2. An Emerging Tukanoan Linguistic Regionality: Policy Pressures

3. Indigenous Languages of Lowland Ecuador: History and Current Status

4. Indigenous Languages of Lowland Peru: History and Current Status

5. Panoan Linguistic, Folkloristic and Ethnographic Research: Retrospect and Prospect

6. Some Macro-Je Relationships

7. Nambiquara Languages: Linguistic and Geographical Distance between Speech Communities

8. A Survey of the Carib Language Family

9. Evidence for Tupi-Carib Relationships

10. The Present State of the Study of Brazilian Indian Languages

Part II. Indigenous Languages of the Andes

11. Ecuadorian Highland Quechua: History and Current Status

12. Southern Peruvian Quechua

13. The Quechua Language in Bolivia

14. A Critical Survey of the Literature on the Aymara Language

15. Dialectical Variation in Aymara

16. Aymara and Quechua: Languages in Contact

17. Contact and Quechua-External Genetic Relationships

Part III. Indigenous Languages of Southern and Eastern South America

18. Current Status of Argentine Indigenous Languages

19. History of the Quichua of Santiago del Estero

20. Indigenous Languages of Tierra del Fuego

21. Mapuche Dialect Survey

22. Indian Languages of the Paraguayan Chaco

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4773-0025-2