Monograph: Bora loans in Res=?iso-8859-1?Q?=EDgaro_?=(Seifart 2011)

[Eduardo Ribeiro]

Etnolinguistica.Org (http://www.etnolinguistica.org), a peer-maintained
information hub on South American languages, publishes since 2009 the
electronic journal Cadernos de Etnolingüística (ISSN 1946-7095), which
includes, in addition to articles and research notes, a monograph series
(Série Monografias).

The second issue in the monograph series -- a study of Bora loans in
Resígaro (Arawakan), by Frank Seifart -- has just been published (see
information below), and it may be of interest to the subscribers of this
list. The monograph is freely available for download:

http://www.etnolinguistica.org/mono:2

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Cadernos de Etnolingüística
Série Monografias, 2, June/2011
ISBN 978-0-9846008-1-6

Bora loans in Resígaro: Massive morphological and little lexical borrowing
in a moribund Arawakan language

by Frank Seifart (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

This study analyzes the influence of Bora (Boran) on Resígaro (Arawakan),
two languages of the Colombian-Peruvian Amazon region, using a newly
discovered Resígaro wordlist from the 1930s (Manuel María de Mataró no
date), another wordlist from the late 1920s (Rivet & Wavrin 1951), and
another from the early 1970s (Allin 1976:382-458).  It shows that despite
heavy structural and morphological influence (Aikhenvald 2001:182-190)
Resígaro has borrowed relatively few lexical items, around 5% in all three
sources. It also shows that the borrowing of entire sets of grammatical
morphemes, including classifiers, number markers, and bound grammatical
roots that is observable in contemporary Resígaro (Seifart 2011) goes back
to at least the early 20th century. This suggests that this remarkable case
of massive morphological borrowing is not merely an effect of language
decay, linked to the current language endangerment situation of Resígaro,
with only two surviving speakers.
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