36.1257, Books: The Oxford Guide to the Languages of the Central Andes: Urban (ed.) (2025)

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Date: 15-Apr-2025
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: The Oxford Guide to the Languages of the Central Andes: Urban (ed.) (2025)


Title: The Oxford Guide to the Languages of the Central Andes
Series Title: Oxford Guides to the World's Languages
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Oxford University Press
           http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-guide-to-the-languages-of-the-central-andes-9780198849926?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics

Editor(s): Matthias Urban

Hardcover (9780198849926)

Abstract:

This volume presents the most comprehensive overview in English of the
languages of the Central Andes, spoken primarily in Peru and Bolivia.
Efforts to describe and document Central Andean languages, as well as
philological research into colonial documentation and texts, have
blossomed in recent decades; here, the major protagonists and drivers
of these exciting developments are given the opportunity to showcase
their research achievements in one volume.
Following an introductory part providing background information on the
region and its cultural and linguistic diversity, chapters in Part II
provide extensive descriptions of individual languages that not only
reflect current knowledge, but also add to our understanding of their
phonological and grammatical structures. The third part offers
substantial typological comparative analyses that reflect the pivotal
role Central Andean languages have played in investigations into
topics of current theoretical interest, such as the notions of
linguistic complexity and evidentiality. Part IV explores topics
relating to the history of the language from early prehistory to the
colonial period, while chapters in the final part shed light on the
cultural, geographic, and sociolinguistic settings in which Central
Andean languages are spoken, and discuss language contact situations
and language ideologies. 'The Oxford Guide to the Languages of the
Central Andes' will be of interest not only to students and
researchers specializing in Andean languages, but also to typologists,
comparative linguists, and linguistic anthropologists.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Typology




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