Chapter Contacts between indigenous languages in South America

• Main Author: Muysken, Pieter (auth)
• Other Authors: Grondona, Verónica (Editor), Campbell, Lyle (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2012
• Subjects: Language; linguistics; General Linguistics; Indigenous Languages of South America
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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...