Willem F. H. Adelaar
List of John Benjamins publications for which Willem F. H. Adelaar plays a role.
Articles
2017. Chapter 2. Proto-Quechua and Proto-Aymara agropastoral terms: Reconstruction and contact patterns. Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, Robbeets, Martine and Alexander Savelyev (eds.), pp. 25–45
This chapter presents reconstructed Proto-Quechua and Proto-Aymara lexical items related to cultivation and herding, and draws conclusions about language and subsistence in the ancient Andes. The patterns of lexical borrowing between the two lineages offer a novel empirical perspective on how… read more | Chapter
2017. Chapter 17. Language diversity, contact and change in the Americas: The model of Filippo Salvatore Gilij (1721–1789). Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, Dakin, Karen, Claudia Parodi and Natalie Operstein (eds.), pp. 356–383
Filippo Salvatore Gilij (1721–1789) was a Jesuit priest and scholar who is known in linguistic circles primarily as the discoverer of several South American language families and as an astute observer of various linguistic phenomena. In his Saggio di storia americana (1780–1784), Gilij focuses on… read more | Chapter
2013. Searching for undetected genetic links between the languages of South America. Historical Linguistics 2011: Selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Osaka, 25-30 July 2011, Kikusawa, Ritsuko and Lawrence A. Reid (eds.), pp. 115–128
With more than a hundred phylogenetic lineages, indigenous South America is often highlighted as a region with one of the highest degrees of linguistic diversity in the world. A systematic investigation of the possible phylogenetic relations that may exist between its numerous language families and… read more | Article
2011. Geschichte und Aktualität der deutschsprachigen Guaraní-Philologie: Akten der Guaraní-Tagung in Kiel und Berlin 25.–27. Mai 2000. Edited by Wolf Dietrich and Haralambos Symeonidis. Historiographia Linguistica 38:1/2, pp. 190–196
Review
2011. Participial clauses in Tarma Quechua. Subordination in Native South American Languages, Gijn, Rik van, Katharina Haude and Pieter Muysken (eds.), pp. 267–280
This article discusses a clause-subordinating strategy attested in a Quechua variety spoken in central Peru. A particular type of adverbial clause is headed by a verb containing an affix that normally marks a participle, whereas no case marker is involved. The function and use of such a clause is… read more | Article