Chapter Contacts between indigenous languages in South America

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...

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Main Author: Muysken, Pieter (auth)
Other Authors: Grondona, Verónica (Editor), Campbell, Lyle (Editor)
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Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2012
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