19_[9783110258035 - The Indigenous] Contacts.pdf

This chapter I will try to describe a few aspects of language contact in the history of the languages of the American Indian communities of South America. The topic ofcontacts between the indigenous languages in South America is vast and almost in-tractable. This is the case particularly because we...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-236832024-03-22T19:23:03Z Chapter Contacts between indigenous languages in South America Muysken, Pieter Grondona, Verónica Campbell, Lyle General Linguistics Indigenous Languages of South America thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics This chapter I will try to describe a few aspects of language contact in the history of the languages of the American Indian communities of South America. The topic ofcontacts between the indigenous languages in South America is vast and almost in-tractable. This is the case particularly because we still know little about the history of the languages of the continent, in the absence of essential sources of informatin, which include: – historical sources dating back more than a few centuries – reliable and complete descriptions for the majority of languages or major representatives of language families – reliable family trees for a number of linguistic families – reliable reconstructions of the features of potential ancestor languages 2019-11-20 23:55 2020-01-07 16:47:06 2020-04-01T09:25:58Z 2020-04-01T09:25:58Z 2012 chapter 1006461 OCN: 1135855475 9783110255133 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23683 eng application/pdf n/a 19_[9783110258035 - The Indigenous] Contacts.pdf De Gruyter The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide 10.1515/9783110258035.235 10.1515/9783110258035.235 2b386f62-fc18-4108-bcf1-ade3ed4cf2f3 52d91b7c-88d0-4590-8048-c6d16fb45de9 7292b17b-f01a-4016-94d3-d7fb5ef9fb79 9783110255133 European Research Council (ERC) Berlin/Boston 230310 FP7 Ideas: European Research Council FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific Programme: "Ideas" Implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities (2007 to 2013) open access
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description This chapter I will try to describe a few aspects of language contact in the history of the languages of the American Indian communities of South America. The topic ofcontacts between the indigenous languages in South America is vast and almost in-tractable. This is the case particularly because we still know little about the history of the languages of the continent, in the absence of essential sources of informatin, which include: – historical sources dating back more than a few centuries – reliable and complete descriptions for the majority of languages or major representatives of language families – reliable family trees for a number of linguistic families – reliable reconstructions of the features of potential ancestor languages
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