The Indigenous languages of South America : a comprehensive guide / / edited by Lyle Campbell and Verónica Grondona

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; Boston, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (764 p.)
• Disciplina: 498
• Soggetto topico: Indians of South America - Languages; Endangered languages; Language and culture
• Soggetto non controllato: General Linguistics; Indigenous Languages of South America
• Altri autori: CampbellLyle GrondonaVerónica María
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Historical overview: Descriptive and comparative research on South American Indian languages / Adelaar, Willem F. H. -- Classification of the indigenous languages of South America / Campbell, Lyle -- Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking / Crevels, Mily -- Contacts between indigenous languages in South America / Muysken, Pieter -- Typological characteristics of South American indigenous languages / Campbell, Lyle -- The phonetics and phonology of South American languages / Storto, Luciana R. / Demolin, Didier -- Chibchan languages / Constenla Umaña, Adolfo -- Linguistic studies in the Cariban family / Gildea, Spike -- Tupían / Dall'Igna Rodrigues, Aryon / Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, Ana -- Languages of the Middle Andes in areal-typological perspective: Emphasis on Quechuan and Aymaran / Adelaar, Willem F.H. -- Languages of the Chaco and Southern Cone / Campbell, Lyle / Grondona, Verónica -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 in depth 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The indigenous languages of South America
• ISBN: 1-280-59760-7; 9786613627438; 3-11-025803-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910655959403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: World of linguistics ; ; v. 2.