This book presents a synchronic grammar of the southern dialects of Yauyos, an extremely endangered
Quechuan language spoken in the Peruvian Andes. As the language is highly synthetic, the grammar focuses principally on morphology; a longer section is dedicated to ...
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of
the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society ...
Why can’t a Quechua speaker wear pants? Anna M. Babel uses this question to open
an analysis of language and social structure at the border of eastern and western, highland and lowland Bolivia. Through an exploration of categories such as ...
This book studies women's language use in bilingual or multi-lingual cultural situations. The authors -
social anthropologists, language teachers, and interpreters cover a wide variety of geographical and linguistic situations, from the death of Gaelic in the Outer Hebrides, to ...
This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in
Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hñähñö in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in ...
Dependency is a fundamental concept in the analysis of linguistic systems. The many if-then statements
offered in typology and grammar-writing imply a causally real notion of dependency that is central to the claim being made-usually with reference to widely varying ...
Comprising eleven studies on languages with designated structural topic and focus positions, this volume includes
an introduction surveying the empirical and theoretical problems involved in the description of this language type. Focusing on languages outside the traditional Indo-European group, the ...
The general language of the former Inca Empire, Quechua is today the most widely spoken
indigenous American language. It is used by over six million people in the Andean region of South America - an area that includes southern Colombia, ...
