Chapter Contacts between indigenous languages in South America

• 1. Verfasser: Muysken, Pieter (auth)
• Weitere Verfasser: Grondona, Verónica (Herausgegeben von), Campbell, Lyle (Herausgegeben von)
• Format: Elektronisch Buchkapitel
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlicht: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2012
• Schlagworte: Language; linguistics; General Linguistics; Indigenous Languages of South America
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This chapter I will try to describe a few aspects of language contact in the history of the languages of the American Indian communities of South America. The topic ofcontacts between the indigenous languages in South America is vast and almost in-tractable. This is the case particularly because we...