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Pre-Historical Language Contact in Peruvian Amazonia: A dynamic approach to Shawi (Kawapanan)Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia
[Contact Language Library 58] 2021
► pp. vii–x
Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia
[Contact Language Library 58] 2021
► pp. vii–x
Table of contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1.Introduction
1.1The South American paradox
1.2Theoretical considerations: From trees to waves and the emergence of a speaker-centred approach
1.2.1The emergence of the family tree model
1.2.2Wave theory and the speaker-centred approach
1.3The glossography of power
1.4Polylectal Internally Dynamic Competence: Towards a Flux Approach
1.4.1The rebirth of the Wave approach within Generative Semantics
1.4.2A Flux Approach, a first sketch
1.5The present study
1.5.1Main research questions
1.5.2Structure of the monograph
Chapter 2.The Shawi community: Origins and modern organisation
2.1Introduction
2.2The prehistorical Kawapanan area
2.3The Jesuit Missions and the colonial society
2.4Modern Shawi Society
2.5The impact of modern Western society
Chapter 3.A short gramar of Shawi
3.1Introduction
3.1.1Structure
3.2Languages, language varieties and speaker profiles
3.2.1Dialectology and “family tree” structure
3.2.2Glottonyms
3.3Grammatical profile
3.4Phonology
3.4.1Phonemes
3.4.2Syllable Structure
3.4.3Processes
3.5Orthography
3.6Open word classes
3.6.1Nouns
3.6.2Verbs
3.7Closed word classes
3.7.1Adjectives
3.7.2Pronouns
3.7.3Deictics
3.7.4Numerals
3.7.5Adverbs
3.7.6Conjunctions
3.7.7Interjections
3.8Major morpho-syntactic processes
3.8.1Valency changing operations
3.8.2Nominalisation
3.8.3Grammatical relations and alignment
3.8.4Discourse elements
Chapter 4.The history of Kawapanan pronouns, a first Bayesian phylogenetic analysis
4.1Introduction
4.2Using phoneme-level data in phylogenetic reconstructions
4.2.1Limitations of the method
4.3Methods
4.3.1Data
4.3.2Cognate coding and alignment
4.3.3Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis
4.4Results
4.4.1Examples
4.5Discussion
4.5.1The Kawapanan-Puelche hypothesis and beyond
4.6Discussion
Chapter 5.Kawapanan in its geographical context
5.1Introduction
5.2The Farming-Agricultural Flux, the Chavín type?
5.2.1The Andean non-future and Subject Raising
5.2.2Some other features
5.3Further uphill, the Carib and Chachapuya elements in Kawapanan
5.4The Arawak trade route Flux
5.4.1The Arawak Matrix
5.4.2The Arawak lexicon in Kawapanan
5.4.3Predicate Raising and branching directionality change
5.4.4The alienable/inalienable distinction
5.5The Jivaroan wars Flux
5.6Final ideas
Chapter 6.Shawi disassembled: A timeline and future perspectives
6.1From the first settlement to the consolidation of Shawi vernaculars
6.2A timeline of Fluxes for the linguistic history of Kawapanan
6.3Avenues of future research
References
Index
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