A Grammar of Yauyos Quechua

by Aviva Shimelman

This book presents a synchronic grammar of the southern dialects of Yauyos, an extremely endangered Quechuan language spoken in the Peruvian Andes. As the language is highly synthetic, the grammar focuses principally on morphology; a longer section is dedicated to the language's unusual evidential system. The grammar's 1400 examples are drawn from a 24-hour corpus of transcribed recordings collected in the course of the documentation of the language...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013287878
• ISBN13: 9781013287879
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 11.0"