Notes on the grammar of Andakí (Estudios de Lingüística Amerindia / Estudos de Linguística Ameríndia / Studies of Amerindian Linguistics / Études de Linguistique Amérindienne) - Hardcover

Moens, Jelien; Pache, Matthias

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3985541590 ISBN 13: 9783985541591

Verlag: Language Science Press, 2025

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This book presents the first grammatical description of Andakí, an extinct language and presumed isolate once spoken in southern Colombia. Written in an accessible style, this book is valuable to both linguists and scholars of South American indigenous cultures. Although Andakí was documented to some extent in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, its grammar has never been systematically analyzed until now. Drawing on sometimes fragmentary data, all made available in an online database, the book offers the most complete grammatical description of Andakí to date and highlights connections to neighboring languages where relevant. This study provides essential groundwork for future comparative research and contributes to preserving the linguistic heritage of one of the world’s most linguistically diverse regions.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jelien Moens holds MAs in Linguistics and Translation from KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Belgium. In her Linguistics program, she specialized in comparative and historical linguistics. Her MA thesis, titled The grammar of Andaquí, an extinct language isolate of western Colombia, was written under the supervision of Matthias Pache. This book is a thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded version of that thesis, which received the L. K. Engels Award for the best MA thesis in linguistics at KU Leuven.

Matthias Pache holds a PhD from Leiden University, The Netherlands, and has worked in linguistic research and teaching at the Universities of Leiden, Bonn, Tübingen, and Passau (Germany), as well as KU Leuven (Belgium), where he was a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His research centers on indigenous languages of South and Central America, with a special focus on the Chibchan family and the languages of the central and southern Andes, including Aymaran, Mapudungun, and Quechuan. He has published on descriptive and contact linguistics, linguistic typology, and the historiography of American indigenous linguistics. His work in historical linguistics focuses on the comparative method and genealogical relationships among American indigenous languages.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Language Science Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3985541590
• ISBN 13: 9783985541591
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 156
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