Aymara book announcement

[M. J. Hardman]

LINGUIST List 12.610


Mon Mar 5 2001


Books: Native American Languages


Message 2: Native American Languages: Aymara by M. Hardman

Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 13:51:22 +0100
From: LINCOM EUROPA <LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de>
Subject: Native American Languages: Aymara by M. Hardman



Aymara
MJ HARDMAN
University of Florida, Gainesville

Aymara, a member of the Jaqi family of languages (Jaqaru, Kawki,
Aymara), is a language of the high Andean plain between the highest
peaks of the Andes mountains and of the shores of the world's highest
navigable lake. Aymara is the first language of approximately
one-third of the population of Bolivia, the dominant language of the
southern area of Perú throughout Puno and down towards the coast in
Moquegua, Tacna, with branches into Arequipa, and is the indigenous
language of northern Chile.  Aymara is a suffixing language with
complex morphophonemics. The bulk of the grammatical resources are
found within the morphology. Syntax is morphologically marked; verbal
person suffixes mark simultaneously object/subject; data source is
marked at all levels of grammar.  Within the nominal system
inclusive/exclusive and humanness are marked.  The Aymara sentence is
defined by the use of sentence suffixes.  These sentence suffixes are
independent of root classes and may occur on all classes. Every
sentence must be marked by one or more sentence suffix, which serves
to define the sentence type. Aymara has 26 consonant phonemes and
three vowel phonemes. Fifteen of the consonants are voiceless stops
which occur in five contrasting positions of articulation; and in
three manners.  Vowel dropping is significant, complex and pervasive,
marking case and phrase structure as well as style.  MJ Hardman is
Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of
Florida. She began the study of Aymara in the sixties and has since
been continually involved with one or another of the Jaqi languages
for which she has written grammars, teaching materials and cultural
studies.  She founded INEL (Instituto Nacional de Estudios
Lingüísticos) in Bolivia and the Aymara Language Materials Program at
the University of Florida.  Her current research also involves
language and gender and the patterning of worldview in language.

ISBN 3 89586 975 9.
LINCOM Studies in Native American Linguistics 35.
Ca. 260 pp. USD 68 / DM 128 / £ 42.




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