Jaqaru

Author : Sarah Bennison
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477325421

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The Entablo Manuscript by Sarah Bennison Pdf

"The Andes are a dry region. Water from melting glaciers, however, forms rivers and lakes that feed irrigation canals that have sustained communities for thousands of years. Managing and maintaining these water resources, then, is essential, and it is not surprising that the attendant responsibilities are grounded in religion. In 1921, in the village of San Pedro de Casta, Peru, when some folks were shirking their responsibilities (and claiming there was nothing written down to hold them accountable), local authorities detailed their duties in a Spanish-language document called the Entablo. This project consists of a critical introduction to the Entablo, a diplomatic transcription of the Spanish language manuscript, and an annotated English translation. The Entablo offers a wealth of insight into local rituals, religion, and community history, especially at an historical moment when these communities were changing rapidly. One of the unique aspects of the Entablo is that it provides instructions for the use of khipu boards, devices that meld the traditional khipus with a written alphabet"--

Author : Willem F. H. Adelaar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781139451123

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The Languages of the Andes by Willem F. H. Adelaar Pdf

The Andean and Pacific regions of South America are home to a remarkable variety of languages and language families, with a range of typological differences. This linguistic diversity results from a complex historical background, comprising periods of greater communication between different peoples and languages, and periods of fragmentation and individual development. The Languages of the Andes documents in a single volume the indigenous languages spoken and formerly spoken in this linguistically rich region, as well as in adjacent areas. Grouping the languages into different cultural spheres, it describes their characteristics in terms of language typology, language contact, and the social perspectives of present-day languages. The authors provide both historical and contemporary information, and illustrate the languages with detailed grammatical sketches. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book will be a valuable source for students and scholars of linguistics and anthropology alike.

Author : Nicola Grandi
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748681754

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Edinburgh Handbook of Evaluative Morphology by Nicola Grandi Pdf

With examples drawn from over 200 world languages, this ground-breaking volume presents a state-of-the-art overview of evaluative morphology.

Author : Pavol Štekauer,Salvador Valera,Lívia Kőrtvélyessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521765343

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Word-Formation in the World's Languages by Pavol Štekauer,Salvador Valera,Lívia Kőrtvélyessy Pdf

Fills a gap in cross-linguistic research by being the first systematic survey of the word-formation of the world's languages. Data from fifty-five world languages reveals associations between word-formation processes in genetically and geographically distinct languages.

Author : Leon Stassen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191568145

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Predicative Possession by Leon Stassen Pdf

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the strategies employed in the world's languages to express predicative possession, as in "the boy has a bat". It presents the results of the author's fifteen-year research project on the subject. Predicative possession is the source of many grammaticalization paths - as in the English perfect tense formed from to have - and its typology is an important key to understanding the structural variety of the world's languages and how they change. Drawing on data from some 400 languages representing all the world's language families, most of which lack a close equivalent to the verb to have, Professor Stassen aims (a) to establish a typology of four basic types of predicative possession, (b) to discover and describe the processes by which standard constructions can be modified, and (c) to explore links between the typology of predicative possession and other typologies in order to reveal patterns of interdependence. He shows, for example, that the parameter of simultaneous sequencing - the way a language formally encodes a sequence like "John sang and Mary danced" - correlates with the way it encodes predicative possession. By means of this and other links the author sets up a single universal model in order to account for all morphosyntactic variation in predicative possession found in the languages of the world, including patterns of variation over time. Predicative Possession will interest scholars and advanced students of language typology, diachronic linguistics, morphology and syntax.

Author : Gale Goodwin Gómez,Hein van der Voort
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004272415

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Reduplication in Indigenous Languages of South America by Gale Goodwin Gómez,Hein van der Voort Pdf

The morphological process of reduplication occurs in languages throughout the world. Reduplication in indigenous languages of South America is the first volume to focus on reduplication in South America. The indigenous languages of South America remain under-documented and little accessible to theoretical linguistics. Most regions and language families of the continent are represented in articles based on recent fieldwork by the authors. Included are data concerning a diverse set of reduplication phenomena from the Andes, Amazonia, and other regions of the continent. A wide range of language families and isolates are discussed, such as Tupian, Quechuan, Mapuche, Tacanan, Arawakan, Barbacoan, and Macro-Jê. Several languages present unusual properties, some of which violate presumed universals, such as no partial without full reduplication.

Author : Rosaleen Howard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429638510

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Multilingualism in the Andes by Rosaleen Howard Pdf

This illuminating book critically examines multicultural language politics and policymaking in the Andean-Amazonian countries of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, demonstrating how issues of language and power throw light on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state. Based on the author’s research in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia over several decades, Howard draws comparisons over time and space. With due attention to history, the book’s focus is situated in the years following the turn of the millennium, a period in which ideological shifts have affected continuity in official policy delivery even as processes of language shift from Indigenous languages such as Aymara and Quechua, to Spanish, have accelerated. The book combines in-depth description and analysis of state-level activity with ethnographic description of responses to policy on the ground. The author works with concepts of technologies of power and language regimentation to draw out the hegemonic workings of power as exercised through language policy creation at multiple scales. This book will be key reading for students and scholars of critical sociolinguistic ethnography, the history, society and politics of the Andean region, and linguistic anthropology, language policy and planning, and Latin American studies more broadly.

Author : Lyle Campbell,Verónica Grondona
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110258035

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The Indigenous Languages of South America by Lyle Campbell,Verónica Grondona Pdf

The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings in most areas of linguistics. Though formerly one of the linguistically least known areas of the world, extensive descriptive and historical linguistic research in recent years has expanded knowledge greatly. These advances are represented in this volume in indepth treatments by the foremost scholars in the field, with chapters on the history of investigation, language classification, language endangerment, language contact, typology, phonology and phonetics, and on major language families and regions of South America.

Author : Matt Coler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004284005

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A Grammar of Muylaq' Aymara by Matt Coler Pdf

In A Grammar of Muylaq’ Aymara, Matt Coler provides a detailed description of a highly-endangered variety of Aymara spoken in the remote Andean village of Muylaque (Muylaq’i), in Southern Peru. This heretofore undescribed variety has many unique characteristics that shed light on the impressive extent of variation in Aymara. Using natural language data gathered during several field trips to Muylaque, Coler offers a detailed analysis of the phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax of Aymara. Additionally, A Grammar of Muylaq’ Aymara includes complete interlinear glosses for several personal narratives. A Grammar of Muylaq’ Aymara represents an important contribution not only to the study of Aymara, Aymara variation, and Andean languages, but also to research into linguistic typology and language contact.

Author : Vladimir Honsa,M. J. Hardman-de-Bautista
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110802283

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Papers on Linguistics and Child Language by Vladimir Honsa,M. J. Hardman-de-Bautista Pdf

Author : Martha James Hardman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111657127

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Jaqaru by Martha James Hardman Pdf

Author : Harriet E. Manelis Klein,Louisa R. Stark
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 871 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292737327

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South American Indian Languages by Harriet E. Manelis Klein,Louisa R. Stark Pdf

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 : Nora K. Rivera
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781646425310

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The Rhetorical Mediator by Nora K. Rivera Pdf

The Rhetorical Mediator reveals how and why scholars and user experience (UX) researchers can include Indigenous technical communicators and oral interpretation practices in their interdisciplinary conversations. Nora Rivera analyzes the challenges that Indigenous interpreters and translators face in Peru, Mexico, and the United States as a means of understanding their agency and examines the various ways in which technical and professional communication, translation and interpreting studies, and UX research can better support the practices of Indigenous interpreters and translators. In places where Indigenous language translation and interpretation are greatly needed, Indigenous language mediators often lack adequate systems to professionalize their field while withstanding Western practices that do not align with their worldviews. Through a “design thinking” methodology based on her work organizing and participating in an Indigenous-focused interpreter and translator conference, Rivera examines testimonios and semi-structured interviews conducted with Indigenous interpreters and translators to emphasize dialogue and desahogo (emotional release) as Indigenous communication practices. The Rhetorical Mediator advocates for Indigenous language practices that have been sidelined by Western scholarship and systems, helping to create more equitable processes to directly benefit Indigenous individuals and other underrepresented groups. This book benefits specialists, including UX researchers, technical and professional communicators, interpreters and translators, and Indigenous professionals, as well as academics teaching graduate and undergraduate methods, Indigenous rhetoric and translation, and UX courses.

Author : Matthias Urban
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031421020

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Linguistic Stratigraphy by Matthias Urban Pdf

This book examines the historical linguistic panorama of Western South America, focusing on the minor languages that were partially or fully replaced by the expansion of the Quechuan family through the region. The author presents a coherent and generally applicable framework for studying prehistoric language shift processes and reconstructing earlier linguistic landscapes before significant language spreads ousted former patterns of linguistic diversity. This framework combines toponymic evidence with the analysis of substrate contact effects, and, in some cases, extralinguistic evidence, to create an integrated if incomplete of extinct and undocumented languages. In an authoritative exploration of case studies, concerning Aymara in parts of Southern Peru, Cañar in Ecuador, and Chacha in Northern Peru, the book shows how the identities of lost languages and earlier linguistic panoramas can be reconstructed.

Author : Wallace L. Chafe,Johanna Nichols
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X001394581

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Evidentiality by Wallace L. Chafe,Johanna Nichols Pdf