Pre-historical language contact in Peruvian Amazonia : a dynamic approach to Shawi (Kawapanan) /

Pre-historical language contact in Peruvian Amazonia : a dynamic approach to Shawi (Kawapanan) /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Rojas-Berscia, Luis Miguel, 1991- author.
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]
Description:	xvi, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Contact language library, 2542-7059 ; volume 58 Contact language library ; v. 58.
Subject:	Languages in contact -- Peru. Shawi language -- Grammar. Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Languages. Indians of South America -- Languages. Languages in contact. Amazon River Region. Peru.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12594169

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ISBN:	9789027208361 9027208360 9789027260215
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"South America was populated relatively recently, probably around 15,000 years ago. Yet, instead of finding a relatively small number of language families, we find some 118 genealogical units. So far, the historical processes that underlie the current picture are not yet fully understood. This book represents a preliminary attempt at understanding the socio-historical dynamics behind language diversification in the region, focusing on the Kawapanan languages, particularly on Shawi. The book provides an introduction to the ideas behind the flux approach of Dynamic linguistics and later concentrates on prehistorical language contact, specifically in the northern Peruvian Andean sphere. The number of studies presented shed light on a layered picture in which a number of Kawapanan lects were used in non-polyglosic multilingual settings. The book explores the potential contact relationships between Kawapanan languages, Quechuan, Aymaran, Chachapuya, Cholón-Hibito, Arawak, Carib and Puelche. The analysis draws on data collected in the field over a period of eight years (2012-2020) with both Shawi and Shiwilu speakers and includes the first comprehensive grammar sketch of Shawi"--
Other form:	Online version: Rojas-Berscia, Luis Miguel, Pre-historical language contact in Peruvian Amazonia Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. 9789027260215

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. List of Figures
2. List of Tables
3. Acknowledgments
4. Chapter 1. Introduction
5. Chapter 2. The Shawi community
6. Chapter 3. A short gramar of Shawi
8. Chapter 4. The history of Kawapanan pronouns, a first Bayesian phylogenetic analysis
9. Chapter 5. Kawapanan in its geographical context
11. Chapter 6. Shawi disassembled
12. References
13. Index