The Native Languages Of South America

Author : Loretta O'Connor,Pieter Muysken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107044289

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The Native Languages of South America by Loretta O'Connor,Pieter Muysken Pdf

In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the world explore the history and structure of these languages, combining insights from archaeology and genetics with innovative linguistic analysis. The book aims to uncover regional patterns and potential deeper genealogical relations between the languages. Based on a large-scale database of features from sixty languages, the book analyses major language families such as Tupian and Arawakan, as well as the Quechua/Aymara complex in the Andes, the Isthmo-Colombian region and the Andean foothills. It explores the effects of historical change in different grammatical systems and fills gaps in the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) database, where South American languages are underrepresented. An important resource for students and researchers interested in linguistics, anthropology and language evolution.

Author : Lyle Campbell,Verónica Grondona
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Rik van Gijn,Katharina Haude,Pieter Muysken
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027206787

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Subordination in Native South-American Languages by Rik van Gijn,Katharina Haude,Pieter Muysken Pdf

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Author : Daniel Garrison Brinton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN : HARVARD:32044043091040

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Studies in South American Native Languages by Daniel Garrison Brinton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN : 1139868896

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The Native Languages of South America by Anonim Pdf

Explores the history and structure of South American languages, combining insights from archaeology and genetics with innovative linguistic analysis

Author : Thomas Sebeok
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781475715590

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Native Languages of the Americas by Thomas Sebeok Pdf

Thirteen of the chapters that comprise the contents of this first volume of Native Languages of the A mericas were originally commissioned by the undersigned in his capacity as Editor of the fourteen volume series (1963-1976), Current Trends in Linguistics. All appeared, in 1973, under Part Three of the quadripartite Vol. 10, subtitled Linguistics in North America. Two additional chaplers are being held over for the volume to follow shortly, devoted to Central and South American lan guages and linguistics, where they more appropriately belong. A fourteenth chapter, on the" Historiography of native North A merican linguistics," was written similarly by invitation, for Vol. 13, subtitled Historiography of Linguistics, published in 1975. Both Volumes 10 and 13 were jointly financed by the United States National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities, with an enhancing contribution to the former by the Canada Council. The generosity of these funding agencies was, of course, previously acknowledged in my respective Editor's Introductions to the two books mentioned, but cannot be repeated too often: without their welcome and timely assistance, the global project could scarcely have been realized on so comprehensive a scale. The Current Trends in Linguistics series was a long-term venture of Mouton Publishers, of The Hague, under the imaginative in-house direction of Peter de Rid der. Various spin-offs were foreseen, and some of them happily realized.

Author : Harriet E. Manelis Klein,Louisa R. Stark
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 871 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Cilene Rodrigues,Andrés Saab
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783031223440

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Formal Approaches to Languages of South America by Cilene Rodrigues,Andrés Saab Pdf

This book analyzes the linguistic diversity of South America based on approaches deeply rooted in the tradition of formal grammar. The chapters brought together in this contributed volume consider native languages all kinds of languages used in the region, including sign languages, indigenous languages and the romance languages (Portuguese and Spanish) originally introduced by European colonizers which underwent processes of transformation giving rise to new, local grammars. One fourth of the language families of the world are located in South America, but the majority of languages in the region are still understudied and out of the radar of theoretical linguistics mostly because their grammars are not well-known by international researchers. This book aims to fill this gap by bringing together studies rooted in the formal grammar approach first developed by Noam Chomsky, which sees language not only as mere corpora attested in oral and written production, but also as expressions of systems of thought and language production which are essential parts of human cognition. The book is divided in three parts – sign languages, romance languages and indigenous languages –, and brings together studies of the following South American languages: Brazilian Sign Language (Libras - Língua Brasileira de Sinais) Argentinian Sign Language (LSA - Lengua de Señas Argentina) Peruvian Sign Language (LSP- Lengua de Señas Peruana) Brazilian Portuguese Chilean and Argentinian Spanish Quechua Paraguayan Guarani A’ingae Macro-Jê languages Formal Approaches to the Languages of South America will be an invaluable resource both for theoretical linguists and cognitive scientists by providing access to top quality research on understudied languages and enabling these languages to be incorporated into comparative studies that can contribute to advance the knowledge of general principles governing all human languages.

Author : Serafín M. Coronel-Molina,Teresa L. McCarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135092344

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Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas by Serafín M. Coronel-Molina,Teresa L. McCarty Pdf

Focusing on the Americas – home to 40 to 50 million Indigenous people – this book explores the history and current state of Indigenous language revitalization across this vast region. Complementary chapters on the USA and Canada, and Latin America and the Caribbean, offer a panoramic view while tracing nuanced trajectories of "top down" (official) and "bottom up" (grass roots) language planning and policy initiatives. Authored by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, the book is organized around seven overarching themes: Policy and Politics; Processes of Language Shift and Revitalization; The Home-School-Community Interface; Local and Global Perspectives; Linguistic Human Rights; Revitalization Programs and Impacts; New Domains for Indigenous Languages Providing a comprehensive, hemisphere-wide scholarly and practical source, this singular collection simultaneously fills a gap in the language revitalization literature and contributes to Indigenous language revitalization efforts.

Author : Anne-Marie De Mejía
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 1853598194

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Bilingual Education in South America by Anne-Marie De Mejía Pdf

This book presents a vision of bilingual education in six South American nations: three Andean countries, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, and three 'Southern Cone' countries, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. It provides an integrated perspective, including work carried out in majority as well as minority language contexts, referring to developments in the fields of indigeneous, Deaf, and international bilingual and multilingual provision.

Author : Shirley Silver,Robin M. Canup,Wick R. Miller,Kevin Righter
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816521395

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Origin of the Earth and Moon by Shirley Silver,Robin M. Canup,Wick R. Miller,Kevin Righter Pdf

This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.

Author : Christopher Moseley
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789231040962

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Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger by Christopher Moseley Pdf

Languages are not only tools of communication, they also reflect a view of the world. Languages are vehicles of value systems and cultural expressions and are an essential component of the living heritage of humanity. Yet, many of them are in danger of disappearing. UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger tries to raise awareness on language endangerment. This third edition has been completely revised and expanded to include new series of maps and new points of view.

Author : Lyle Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195349832

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American Indian Languages by Lyle Campbell Pdf

Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of the northernmost (Eskimoan). Campbell's project is to take stock of what is currently known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics, and the success and failure of its various methodologies. There is remarkably little consensus in the field, largely due to the 1987 publication of Language in the Americas by Joseph Greenberg. He claimed to trace a historical relation between all American Indian languages of North and South America, implying that most of the Western Hemisphere was settled by a single wave of immigration from Asia. This has caused intense controversy and Campbell, as a leading scholar in the field, intends this volume to be, in part, a response to Greenberg. Finally, Campbell demonstrates that the historical study of Native American languages has always relied on up-to-date methodology and theoretical assumptions and did not, as is often believed, lag behind the European historical linguistic tradition.

Author : Mary Ritchie Key
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Indians of South America
ISBN : UOM:39015005886117

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The Grouping of South American Indian Languages by Mary Ritchie Key Pdf

Author : Alan Durston,Bruce Mannheim
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268103729

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Indigenous Languages, Politics, and Authority in Latin America by Alan Durston,Bruce Mannheim Pdf

This volume makes a vital and original contribution to a topic that lies at the intersection of the fields of history, anthropology, and linguistics. The book is the first to consider indigenous languages as vehicles of political orders in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present, across regional and national contexts, including Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, and Paraguay. The chapters focus on languages that have been prominent in multiethnic colonial and national societies and are well represented in the written record: Guarani, Quechua, some of the Mayan languages, Nahuatl, and other Mesoamerican languages. The contributors put into dialogue the questions and methodologies that have animated anthropological and historical approaches to the topic, including ethnohistory, philology, language politics and ideologies, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and metapragmatics. Some of the historical chapters deal with how political concepts and discourses were expressed in indigenous languages, while others focus on multilingualism and language hierarchies, where some indigenous languages, or language varieties, acquired a special status as mediums of written communication and as elite languages. The ethnographic chapters show how the deployment of distinct linguistic varieties in social interaction lays bare the workings of social differentiation and social hierarchy. Contributors: Alan Durston, Bruce Mannheim, Sabine MacCormack, Bas van Doesburg, Camilla Townsend, Capucine Boidin, Angélica Otazú Melgarejo, Judith M. Maxwell, Margarita Huayhua.