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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.
List of contents
- Part I. Background and context
- 1: Matthias Urban: Introduction: Central Andean linguistic diversity and the diversity of Central Andean linguistics
- 2: Peter Kaulicke: Physical geography and cultural trajectory of the Central Andes
- 3: Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino: Historical linguistics, philology, and the development of Andean linguistics
- Part II. Language profiles
- 4: Carlos Molina-Vital: Huaylas (Ancash) Quechua
- 5: Aviva Shimelman: Southern Yauyos Quechua
- 6: Aviva Shimelman and Jairo Valqui: Chachapoyas Quechua
- 7: Raúl Bendezú Araujo and Jorge Acurio-Palma: Cuzco Quechua
- 8: Matt Coler: Aymara
- 9: Matt Coler: Jaqaru
- 10: Katja Hannß: Uru and Chipaya
- 11: Matthias Urban: Mochica
- 12: Nicholas Q. Emlen, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Simon van de Kerke, and Arjan Mossel: Puquina
- 13: Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus: Hibito and Cholón
- 14: Matthias Urban: Small and extinct languages of Northern Peru
- 15: Pieter Muysken: Kallawaya
- 16: Luis Andrade Ciudad: The Andean Spanish of Southern Peru and Bolivia
- Part III. Comparative studies
- 17: Lev Michael and Allegra Robertson: Central Andean segmental phonologies in continental perspective
- 18: Olga Krasnoukhova: The morphology of the nominal domain in the languages of the Central Andes
- 19: Matthias Pache: The grammar of the verb in the languages of the Central Andes
- 20: Rik van Gijn: Syntactic structures in the languages of the Central Andes
- 21: Karolina Grzech: Discourse, information structure, and evidentiality in the Central Andes
- 22: Johanna Nichols: Linguistic complexity in the Central Andes
- Part IV. Language history
- 23: Paul Heggarty: Expansions and language shift in prehistory
- 24: Matthias Urban: Language ecologies and dynamics in the ancient Central Andes
- 25: César Itier: Language diffusion and state agency: Quechuan in Inca and colonial times
- Part V. Language contact, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology
- 26: Nicholas Q. Emlen: The Quechuan-Aymaran relationship
- 27: Anna María Escobar: Contact between indigenous languages of the Central Andes and Spanish: Linguistic outcomes as cases of contra-hierarchical diffusion
- 28: Rosaleen Howard: Language ideologies and the Quechuan family
- 29: Nicholas Q. Emlen, Rik van Gijn, and Sietze Norder: The Andean-Amazonian interface: Sociolinguistic relations and areal-typological patterns
- 30: Joshua Shapero: Language and the Andean environment
About the author
Matthias Urban is Researcher at the CNRS laboratory "Dynamique du language", where he directs an ERC project on historical dynamics in language geography. He has held prior appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the universities of Leiden, Marburg, and Tübingen, where he was principal investigator of the Junior Research Group "The Language Dynamics of the Ancient Central Andes," hosted by the University of Tübingen and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)'s Emmy Noether Programme. His research interests include historical linguistics, in particular of the Andes, language contact, and linguistic typology.
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.
