Native Languages of South America Origins, Development, Typology
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Biographical note
Loretta O'Connor is a postdoctoral researcher in the South American languages research group of the Traces of Contact project, Radboud University Nijmegen. Pieter Muysken is Academy Professor of Linguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen.'A truly significant book, a major contribution! It provides many new findings on the history and typology of South American languages, with important implications for linguistics generally.' Lyle Campbell, University of Hawai'i Mānoa
'The Native Languages of South America is a gold mine of precious specimens within reach of anyone interested in uncovering linguistic treasures. Amerindian languages are still vastly underexplored and continue to reveal phenomena that at times conform to expected universal tendencies and at times surprise and provoke us toward the revision - sometimes radical - of existing descriptive and theoretical models. This book will be useful not only to typologists, but also those who wish to know more about the results of new interdisciplinary research. Archeology and ethnography partner up with historical linguistics, which no longer merely reproduces the classic mold of the historical-comparative method, but revives areal diachronic study, investigating the multiple and complex contacts between societies and languages in the prehistorical and historical times of the indigenous peoples of South America.' Bruna Franchetto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Museu Nacional