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The Native Languages of South America : Origins, Development, Typology.
Explores the history and structure of South American languages, combining insights from archaeology and genetics with innovative linguistic analysis.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Maps; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: South American indigenous languages; genealogy, typology, contacts; 1 Solving an intellectual puzzle; 2 Language relationships in South America; 2.1 The field of historical linguistics and the comparative method; 2.2 Greenberg's Amerind; 2.3 Current distribution of the language families and isolates; 2.4 Explanations for the current diversity; 3 Linguistic typology and the areal distribution of features; 4 Language contact; 4.1 Scenarios for language contact.
- 4.2 Linguistic areas5 Stability and the selection of features: lexical or structural; 5.1 Lexical stability; 5.2 Structural stability; 5.3 Combining structural and lexical stability; 5.4 Quantitative approaches; 5.5 Morphosyntactic elements and categories; 6 Research methodologies in the present volume; 6.1 Features and languages sampled; 6.2 Database and computational tools; 7 The present volume; Part I Introduction to South America; 2 Human migrations, dispersals, and contacts in South America; 1 Introduction; 2 The first migrations; 2.1 Entry from Asia, initial migrations into the Americas.
- 2.2 How many source populations were there?2.3 Group size and internal differentiation; 3 Internal migrations and genetic profiles in South America; 4 Population distribution, density, and interaction in South America; 4.1 Dissemination of peoples and cultures; 4.2 Early subsistence economies 14,000-8000 BP; 4.3 Ceramics technologies and plant domestication 8000-4000 BP; 4.4 Landscape modification and the intensification of agriculture 4000-500 BP; 5 Conclusions; 3 Basic vocabulary comparison in South American languages; 1 Introduction.
- 2 South American avant-gardists of basic vocabulary comparison3 The standing of basic vocabulary comparison; 4 Three perspectives on language families in South America; 5 Conclusion; Part II Case studies in contact; 4 Structural features and language contact in the Isthmo-Colombian area; 1 Introduction; 2 The Isthmo-Colombian area: region and languages; 2.1 The historical and cultural context of the region; 2.2 The Chibchan family; 2.3 The languages in the study; 3 Features and methods; 3.1 Stable vs. unstable; 3.2 Template vs. contents: patterns that connect; 4 Assessment of feature role.
- 4.1 Linguistic distance by feature category and pre-defined group4.2 Geographic distance by feature category; 4.3 Summary of quantitative assessments; 5 Conclusions; Appendix; 5 The Andean foothills and adjacent Amazonian fringe; 1 Introduction; 2 The foothill-fringe area; 3 Andean versus Amazonian features; 3.1 Phonology and morphophonology; 3.2 Morphosyntax; 3.3 Constituent order; 3.4 Lexicon; 4 Results and discussion; 4.1 Linguistic distance; 4.2 Correlations with geographic factors; 5 Conclusion; 6 The Andean matrix; 1 Introduction; 2 Definition and distribution of languages.