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Message1: The Native Languages of South America: O'Connor, Muysken (Eds)
Date:02-Apr-2014
From:Joyce Reid jreid at cambridge.org
LINGUIST List issue http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-1584.html 

Title: The Native Languages of South America 
Subtitle: Origins, Development, Typology 
Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/latin-american-language-and-linguistics/native-languages-south-america-origins-development-typology?format=HB 

Editor: Loretta O'Connor
Editor: Pieter Muysken

Hardback: ISBN:  Pages:  Price: U.K. � 65.00
Hardback: ISBN:  Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 99.00

Abstract:

1. Introduction: South American indigenous languages - genealogy, typology, contacts Pieter Muysken and Loretta O'Connor; Part I. Introduction to South America: 2. Human migrations, dispersals, and contacts in South America Loretta O'Connor and Vishnupriya Kolipakam; 3. Basic vocabulary comparison in South American languages Harald Hammarstr�m; Part II. Case Studies in Contact: 4. Structural features and language contact in the Isthmo-Colombian Area Loretta O'Connor; 5. The Andean foothills and adjacent Amazonian fringe Rik van Gijn; 6. The Andean matrix Simon van de Kerke and Pieter Muysken; 7. The Arawakan matrix Love Eriksen and Swintha Danielsen; 8. The Tupian expansion Love Eriksen and Ana Vilacy Galucio; Part III. Comparative Perspectives on Linguistic Structures: 9. Language internal and external factors in the development of the desiderative in South American indigenous languages Neele Mueller; 10. Verbal argument marking patterns in South American languages Joshua!
  Birchall; 11. The noun phrase: focus on demonstratives, redrawing the semantic map Olga Krasnoukhova; 12. Subordination strategies in South America: nominalization Rik van Gijn; Part IV. Major Findings and Conclusions: 13. The languages of South America: deep families, areal relationships, and language contact Joshua Birchall, Swintha Danielsen, Love Eriksen, Ana Vilacy Galucio, Rik van Gijn, Harald Hammarstr�m, Simon van de Kerke, Vishnupraya Kolipakam, Olga Krasnoukhova, Pieter Muysken, Neele M�ller and Loretta O'Connor. 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Genetic Classification
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Arawakan
                      Aymaran 
                      Quechuan 
                      Tup�an 

Written In: English  (eng)

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