16.3390, Books: Language Descrip tion, Chol ón: Alexander-Bakkerus

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Date: 23-Nov-2005
From: K. van den Heuvel < lot at let.uu.nl >
Subject: Eighteenth-Century Cholón: Alexander-Bakkerus 

	
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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:53:06
From: K. van den Heuvel < lot at let.uu.nl >
Subject: Eighteenth-Century Cholón: Alexander-Bakkerus 
 



Title: Eighteenth-Century Cholón 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series 120  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: Utrecht Institute of Linguistics / LOT Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistic
	   http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/
	

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/index3.html 


Author: A. Alexander-Bakkerus, Leiden Center for Linguistics (ULCL)

Electronic: ISBN: 9076864861 Pages: 533 Price: U.S. $ free
Paperback: ISBN: 9076864861 Pages: 533 Price: Europe EURO 43.02


Abstract:

The main purpose of this book is to give a description of the Cholón
language as represented in the 'Arte de la lengua cholona (ALC)', a
colonial grammar written in 1748 by a Franciscan friar, named Pedro de la
Mata. The 'ALC' is kept in the British Library in London. Nowadays, the
Cholón language is probably extinct. It was spoken in North Peru in the
valley of the Huallaga river. Cholón formed a small language family
together with the neighbouring language Híbito.

The description of eighteenth-century Cholón, the linguistic part of the
book, is preceded by a description of secondary sources and of theories
about genetic relations (chapter 1), by an ethnohistorical sketch (chapter
2), and by an analysis of the manuscript (chapter 3).

The linguistic part starts with an analysis of the orthography used in the
'ALC' and of the observations about certain sounds, in order to reconstruct
a tentative sound system (chapter 4). Chapter 5 deals with morphonology. In
this chapter attention is paid to syllable structure, to phenomena like
vowel suppression and harmonization, and to stem-initial consonant changes.
Nominal and verbal morphosyntax are discussed in chapters 6 and 7,
respectively. Cholón is an agglutinative language. Besides nouns and verbs,
which are the most important word categories, Cholón has a small class of
adverbs (chapter 8) and interjections (chapter 9). In chapter 10 discourse
markers, such as question and exclamation markers, are treated. Chapter 11
is dedicated to the negation. In chapter 12, a survey of the different
subordinate clauses is given. The linguistic part ends with a lexicon. 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Language Description
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Cholón (cht)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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