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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788816103321

Titolo

Language contact and documentation / / edited by Bernard Comrie and Lucía Golluscio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany : , : De Gruyter : , : Mouton, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-039355-7

3-11-031747-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.) : ill

Disciplina

306.44098

Soggetti

Languages in contact - Latin America

Endangered languages - Latin America

Language and culture - Latin America

Latin America Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Papers in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

This collection brings together a selection of the papers presented during the II International Symposium on Language and Culture Documentation in Latin America that was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 14-15, 2008, under the auspices of the Documentation and Research Laboratory for Linguistics and Anthropology (DILA), National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) Argentina; the Linguistics Department of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; and the Chaco Languages Project (DoBeS Programme, Volkswagen Foundation).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of authors -- I. Introduction -- II. Overview: La documentación lingüística -- 1. Nombres propios, denominación e identidad entre los pilagá y los wichí (Gran Chaco) -- 2. Huellas de trayectorias y contactos en el sistema lingüístico: el caso vilela (Chaco) -- 3. Tetsualü: The pluralism of languages and people in the Upper Xingu -- 4. El Chaco como área lingüística: una evaluación de los rasgos fonológicos -- 5. Linguistic areas, bottom-up or top-down? The case of the Guaporé-Mamoré -- 6.



Seguimiento referencial en lenguas sudamericanas: mecanismos sintácticos/ pragmáticos y distribución geográfica -- 7. Una historia de muchas lenguas: la documentación de la narrativa políglota en las tradiciones orales del norte de Australia -- 8. Putting oral narratives into writing – experiences from a language documentation project in Bouganville, Papua New Guinea -- 9. An introduction to the Atlas of the Araxes-Iran Linguistic Area -- Author index -- Language index -- Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

The volume is highly relevant to the current regional and international discussion on endangered languages, language contact, documentation and areal typology. The publication is the outcome of a fruitful theoretical and methodological exchange between Latin American scholars and international scholars working in other regions. Most of the papers target Latin American languages. Additionally, new insight into the contact situations in Indonesia, Iran, Australia and Papua New Guinea is provided.