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
Main Author: Rojas-Berscia, Luis Miguel, 1991- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]
Series:Contact language library ; v. 58.
Subjects:
Languages in contact > Peru.
Shawi language > Grammar.
Indians of South America > Amazon River Region > Languages.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. South American paradox
  • 1.2. Theoretical considerations: From trees to waves and the emergence of a speaker-centred approach
  • 1.2.1. emergence of the family tree model
  • 1.2.2. Wave Theory and the speaker-centred approach
  • 1.3. glossography of power
  • 1.4. Polylectal Internally Dynamic Competence: Towards a Flux approach
  • 1.4.1. rebirth of the Wave approach within Generative Semantics
  • 1.4.2. Flux approach, a first sketch
  • 1.5. present study
  • 1.5.1. Main research questions
  • 1.5.2. Structure of the book
  • 2. Shawi Community
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. prehistorical Kawapanan area
  • 2.3. Jesuit Missions and the colonial society
  • 2.4. Modern Shawi society
  • 2.5. impact of modern Western society
  • 3. Short Gramar Of Shawi
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.1.1. Structure
  • 3.2. Languages, language varieties and speaker profiles
  • 3.2.1. Dialectology and "family tree" structure
  • 3.2.2. Glottonyms
  • 3.3. Grammatical profile
  • 3.4. Phonology
  • 3.4.1. Phonemes
  • 3.4.2. Syllable structure
  • 3.4.3. Processes
  • 3.5. Orthography
  • 3.6. Open word classes
  • 3.6.1. Nouns
  • 3.6.2. Verbs
  • 3.7. Closed word classes
  • 3.7.1. Adjectives
  • 3.7.2. Pronouns
  • 3.7.3. Deictics
  • 3.7.4. Numerals
  • 3.7.5. Adverbs
  • 3.7.6. Conjunctions
  • 3.7.7. Interjections
  • 3.8. Major morpho-syntactic processes
  • 3.8.1. Valency changing operations
  • 3.8.2. Nominalisation
  • 3.8.3. Grammatical relations and alignment
  • 3.8.4. Discourse elements
  • 4. From Proto-Kawapanan To Shawi
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. reconsideration of the proposal in Valenzuela Bismarck (2011)
  • 4.3. Rhyme correspondences
  • 4.3.1. Current proposal
  • 4.4. Some historical phonological processes in Shawi
  • 4.4.1. Shawi ablaut
  • 4.4.2. Glide amalgamation in Shawi
  • 4.4.3. Dispreference for word-initial e in Shawi
  • 4.4.4. Palatalisation in Shawi
  • 4.4.5. Initial a- before vowels in Shawi
  • 4.5. Further discussion
  • 5. History Of Kawapanan Pronouns, A First Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Using phoneme-level data in phylogenetic reconstructions
  • 5.2.1. Limitations of the method
  • 5.3. Methods
  • 5.3.1. Data
  • 5.3.2. Cognate coding and alignment
  • 5.3.3. Bayesian phylogenetic analysis
  • 5.4. Results
  • 5.4.1. Examples
  • 5.5. Discussion
  • 5.5.1. Kawapanan-Puelche hypothesis and beyond
  • 5.6. Discussion
  • 6. Kawapanan In Its Geographical Context1
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Farming-Agricultural Flux, the Chavin type?
  • 6.2.1. Andean non-future and Subject Raising
  • 6.2.2. Some other features
  • 6.3. Further uphill, the Carib and Chachapuya elements in Kawapanan
  • 6.4. Arawak trade route Flux
  • 6.4.1. Arawak Matrix
  • 6.4.2. Arawak lexicon in Kawapanan
  • 6.4.3. Predicate Raising and branching directionality change
  • 6.4.4. alienable/inalienable distinction
  • 6.5. Jivaroan wars Flux
  • 6.6. Final ideas
  • 7. Maranon-Huallaga Exchange Route
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Linguistic survey
  • 7.3. Classifiers in the area
  • 7.3.1. Hibito-Cholon
  • 7.3.2. Kawapanan
  • 7.3.3. Muniche
  • 7.3.4. Quingnam
  • 7.4. Stones and grains as counting devices
  • 7.5. Sociohistorical scenario: The salt mines of Cachiyacu
  • 7.6. Final ideas
  • 8. Shawi Disassembled
  • 8.1. From the first settlement to the consolidation of Shawi vernaculars
  • 8.2. timeline of Fluxes for the linguistic history of Kawapanan
  • 8.3. Avenues of future research.

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