The Indigenous Languages Of South America —— A Comprehensive Guide

----- 南美洲土著语言- 综合指南

ISBN: 9783110255133 出版年：2012 页码：764 Grondona, Veronica Campbell, Lyle De Gruyter Mouton

The Indigenous Languages of South America, edited by Lyle Campbell and Veró;nica Grondona, is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings in most areas of linguistics. Though formerly one of the linguistically least known areas of the world, extensive descriptive and historical linguistic research in recent years has expanded knowledge greatly. These advances are represented in this volume in indepth treatments by the foremost scholars in the field, with chapters on the history of investigation, language classification, language endangerment, language contact, typology, phonology and phonetics, and on major language families and regions of South America.