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Title Language contact and documentation / edited by Bernard Comrie and Lucía Golluscio.

Publication Info. Berlin, Germany : De Gruyter : Mouton, 2015.
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgements; List of authors; I Introduction; II Overview: La documentación lingüística; South America; 1 Nombres propios, denominación e identidad entre los pilagá y los wichí (Gran Chaco); 2 Huellas de trayectorias y contactos en el sistema lingüístico: el caso vilela (Chaco); 3 Tetsualü: The pluralism of languages and people in the Upper Xingu; 4 El Chaco como área lingüística: una evaluación de los rasgos fonológicos; 5 Linguistic areas, bottom-up or top-down? The case of the Guaporé-Mamoré
6 Seguimiento referencial en lenguas sudamericanas: mecanismos sintácticos/pragmáticos y distribución geográficaBeyond; 7 Una historia de muchas lenguas: la documentación de la narrativa políglota en las tradiciones orales del norte de Australia; 8 Putting oral narratives into writing -- experiences from a language documentation project in Bouganville, Papua New Guinea; 9 An introduction to the Atlas of the Araxes-Iran Linguistic Area; Author index; Language index; Subject index.
Summary The volume is highly relevant to the current regional and international discussion on endangered languages, language contact, documentation and areal typology. The publication is the outcome of a fruitful theoretical and methodological exchange between Latin American scholars and international scholars working in other regions. Most of the papers target Latin American languages. Additionally, new insight into the contact situations in Indonesia, Iran, Australia and Papua New Guinea is provided.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Languages in contact -- Latin America.
Languages in contact.
Latin America.
Endangered languages -- Latin America.
Endangered languages.
Language and culture -- Latin America.
Language and culture.
Latin America -- Languages.
Language and languages.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Comrie, Bernard, 1947- editor.
Golluscio, Lucía, editor.
Added Title Contacto lingüístico y documentación
Other Form: Print version: Language contact and documentation 9783110317473
ISBN 9783110393552 electronic book
3110393557 electronic book
9783110317473 electronic book
3110317478 electronic book
9783110317060
9783110393552 (EPUB)
Standard No. 10.1515/9783110317473