Table Of ContentBernard Comrie and Lucía Golluscio (Eds.)
LanguageContactandDocumentation
Contactolingüísticoydocumentación
Language Contact
and Documentation
Contacto lingüístico
y documentación
Edited by
Bernard Comrie and Lucía Golluscio
DE GRUYTER
MOUTON
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Listofauthors viii
BernardComrie&LucíaGolluscio
I Introduction 1
AnthonyC.Woodbury
II Overview:Ladocumentaciónlingüística 9
South America
AlejandraVidal
1 Nombrespropios,denominacióneidentidadentrelospilagáyloswichí
(GranChaco) 51
LucíaGolluscio
2 Huellasdetrayectoriasycontactosenelsistemalingüístico:elcaso
vilela(Chaco) 77
MutuaMehinaku&BrunaFranchetto
3 Tetsualü:ThepluralismoflanguagesandpeopleintheUpper
Xingu 121
HebeA.González
4 ElChacocomoárealingüística:unaevaluacióndelosrasgos
fonológicos 165
PieterMuysken,HaraldHammarström,JoshuaBirchall,RikvanGijn,
OlgaKrasnoukhova,andNeeleMüller
5 Linguisticareas,bottom-uportop-down?ThecaseoftheGuaporé-
Mamoré 205
FlorenciaCicconeyVerónicaNercesian
6 Seguimientoreferencialenlenguassudamericanas:mecanismos
sintácticos/pragmáticosydistribucióngeográfica 239
vi Contents
Beyond
NicholasEvans
7 Unahistoriademuchaslenguas:ladocumentacióndelanarrativa
políglotaenlastradicionesoralesdelnortedeAustralia 287
UlrikeMosel
8 Puttingoralnarrativesintowriting–experiencesfromalanguage
documentationprojectinBouganville,PapuaNewGuinea 321
DonaldL.Stilo
9 AnintroductiontotheAtlasoftheAraxes-IranLinguisticArea 343
Authorindex 357
Languageindex 362
Subjectindex 365
Acknowledgements
The International Symposium on Language and Culture Documentation (Bue-
nosAires,August14–15,2008)thatgaverisetothisvolumewasorganizedby
theDocumentationandResearchLaboratoryforLinguisticsandAnthropology
(DILA), a center created in 2007 by an agreement between the Argentine Na-
tional Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) and the
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. DILA hosts a Regional Digital Ar-
chive for language resources (see http://www.caicyt.gov.ar/DILA). The event
was collaboratively funded by the Volkswagen Foundation through its DoBeS
Program;theDepartmentofLinguistics,MaxPlanckInstituteforEvolutionary
Anthropology (MPI-EVA), Germany; and CONICET, Argentina. Special support
forthepublicationofthisvolumewasprovidedbytheDepartmentofLinguis-
tics, MPI-EVA and CONICET, the latter through both DILA and CONICET re-
search project PIP 100806/2011–14 led by Lucía Golluscio. We are grateful to
alltheinstitutionsthatwereinvolvedinthisproject.
Wewouldalsoliketothankthecontributorstothevolumeandotherpar-
ticipants in the Symposium for their deep commitment to the corresponding
activities with the indigenous communities and general audience and for the
fruitful discussion during the event. In particular, we thank the contributors
for their cooperation in the complex task of preparing a consistent collective
volume. We are especially grateful to Nick Evans and Tony Woodbury who
contributedtothevolumealthoughtheycouldnotattendtheSymposium.We
also benefited greatly from other colleagues’ comments on topics here devel-
oped: Sven Grawunder (MPI-EVA) and Willem de Reuse (University of North
Texas).OurgratitudegoesalsotoHans-JörgBibikoforhisunstintinghelpwith
thepreparationofthemapsforthisvolume.
WefurtherthanktheDILAstaffmembersfortheorganizationofthe2008
Symposium and additional activities, as well as for their support for this vol-
ume.Fortheirinvaluableassistanceineditingandtypesettingthisvolume,as
wellascheckingtheSpanish,wearegratefultoGabrielCastroAlanis,Santiago
Durante, Felipe Hasler Sandoval, Cecilia Hokama, Mayra Juanatey, Paola Pa-
cor, Ivanna Ramírez Chain and Mariana Rodríguez. Special thanks go out to
CeciliaMagadánandMartínCalifa,whowereinchargeoftheSpanishtransla-
tions and revisions of Evans’ and Woodbury’s papers. We would also like to
thank Cambridge University Press for their permission to publish the Spanish
translationofWoodbury’spaper.
Finally, our sincere thanks to Uri Tadmor, Editorial Director at De Gruyter
Mouton, who offered his strong support for this project from the start, and to
Julie Miess, Kirstin Börgen and Wolfgang Konwitschny, who provided ongoing
assistance.
List of authors
JoshuaBirchall LucíaGolluscio
MuseuParaenseEmílioGoeldi,Belém(Brazil) UniversidaddeBuenosAires&
CoordenaçãodeCiênciasHumanas ConsejoNacionaldeInvestigaciones
Av.Perimetral,1901−TerraFirme CientíficasyTécnicas
(66077-830)Belém,PA LaboratoriodeDocumentacióne
Brazil InvestigaciónenLingüísticayAntropología
E-mail:[email protected] CAICYT/CONICET
Saavedra151°piso
FlorenciaCiccone (C1083ACA)CiudadAutónomadeBuenosAires
UniversidaddeBuenosAires Argentina
FacultaddeFilosofíayLetras E-mail:[email protected]
InstitutodeLingüística
25deMayo221 HebeA.González
(1002)CiudadAutónomadeBuenosAires ConsejoNacionaldeInvestigaciones
Argentina CientíficasyTécnicas&
E-mail:[email protected] UniversidadNacionaldeSanJuan
DepartamentodeLetras
BernardComrie FacultaddeFilosofía,HumanidadesyArtes
UniversityofCaliforniaSantaBarbara& (UNSJ)
MaxPlanckInstitutefor Av.IgnaciodelaRoza230(O)
EvolutionaryAnthropology (5400)SanJuan
DeutscherPlatz6 Argentina
(04103)Leipzig E-mail:[email protected]
Germany
E-mail:[email protected] HaraldHammarström
MaxPlanckInstituteforPsycholinguistics
NicholasEvans POBox310
DepartmentofLinguistics (6500AH)Nijmegen
AustralianNationalUniversity TheNetherlands
SchoolofCulture,HistoryandLanguage, E-mail:[email protected]
ANUCollegeofAsiaandthePacific
(ACT0200)Canberra OlgaKrasnoukhova
Australia FrederikLintsstraat128
E-mail:[email protected] (3000)Leuven
Belgium
BrunaFranchetto E-mail:[email protected]
UniversidadeFederaldoRiodeJaneiro
MuseuNacional−UFRJ MutuaMehinaku
DA/PPGAS UniversidadeFederaldoRiodeJaneiro(Brazil)
QuintadaBoaVistas.n.−SãoCristóvão MuseuNacional−UFRJ
(20940-040)RiodeJaneiro−RJ DA/PPGAS
Brazil QuintadaBoaVistas.n.−SãoCristóvão
E-mail:[email protected] (20940-040)RiodeJaneiro−RJ
Brazil
E-mail:[email protected]
Listofauthors ix
UlrikeMosel DonaldStilo
SeminarfürAllgemeineundVergleichende MaxPlanckInstituteforEvolutionary
Sprachwissenschaft Anthropology
Christian-Albrechts-UniversitätzuKiel DeutscherPlatz6
(24098)Kiel (04103)Leipzig
Germany Germany
E-mail:[email protected] E-mail:[email protected]
NeeleMüller
RikvanGijn
Philipps-UniversitätMarburg
UniversityofZürich
Deutschhausstraße3
Dept.ofComparativeLinguistics
(35032)Marburg
Plattenstrasse54
Germany
(CH-8032)Zürich
E-mail:[email protected]
Switzerland
E-mail:[email protected]
PieterMuysken
RadboudUniversity
AlejandraVidal
CentreforLanguageStudies
ConsejoNacionaldeInvestigaciones
Erasmusplein1
CientíficasyTécnicas&
(6525)HTNijmegen
TheNetherlands UniversidadNacionaldeFormosa
E-mail:[email protected] FacultaddeHumanidades
InstitutodeInvestigacionesLingüísticas
VerónicaNercesian Av.Gutnisky3200
ConsejoNacionaldeInvestigaciones (3600)Formosa
CientíficasyTécnicas& Argentina
UniversidadNacionaldeFormosa E-mail:[email protected]
FacultaddeHumanidades
InstitutodeInvestigacionesLingüísticas AnthonyC.Woodbury
Av.Gutnisky3200 UniversityofTexasatAustin
(3600)Formosa DepartmentofLinguistics
Argentina 305E.23rdStreetSTOPB5100
E-mail:[email protected] Austin,TX78712
USA
E-mail:[email protected]
