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The Indigenous Languages of South America
A Comprehensive Guide
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Edited by:
Lyle Campbell
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2012
About this book
The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings in most areas of linguistics. Though formerly one of the linguistically least known areas of the world, extensive descriptive and historical linguistic research in recent years has expanded knowledge greatly. These advances are represented in this volume in indepth treatments by the foremost scholars in the field, with chapters on the history of investigation, language classification, language endangerment, language contact, typology, phonology and phonetics, and on major language families and regions of South America.
- an up-to-date reference work for the indigenous languages of South America
- the "continent-focus" makes this a unique publication, in line with the other continent-focused volumes of the series
- includes an extensive language index, listing the languages’ multiple names and their alternate and different spellings
Author / Editor information
Lyle Campbell, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA;Verónica Grondona, Eastern Michigan University, USA.
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eBook published on:
January 27, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9783110258035
Hardcover published on:
January 16, 2012
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110255133
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Front matter:
11
Main content:
750
Tables:
100
Audience(s) for this book
Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate Students of Linguistics, interested in Indigenous Languages.
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