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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.

Quechua language --- Dialects. --- Grammar.

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Once there was a Quechua folktale. It begins with a trickster fox's penis with a will of its own and ends with a daughter returning to parents who cannot recognize her until she recounts the uncanny adventures that have befallen her since she ran away from home. Following the strange twists and turnings of this tale, Catherine J. Allen weaves a narrative of Quechua storytelling and story listening that links these arts to others—fabric weaving, in particular—and thereby illuminates enduring Andean strategies for communicating deeply felt cultural values. In this masterful work of literary nonfiction, Allen draws out the connections between two prominent markers of ethnic identity in Andean nations—indigenous language and woven cloth—and makes a convincing case that the connection between language and cloth affects virtually all aspects of expressive culture, including the performing arts. As she explores how a skilled storyteller interweaves traditional tales and stock characters into new stories, just as a skilled weaver combines traditional motifs and colors into new patterns, she demonstrates how Andean storytelling and weaving both embody the same kinds of relationships, the same ideas about how opposites should meet up with each other. By identifying these pervasive patterns, Allen opens up the Quechua cultural world that unites story tellers and listeners, as listeners hear echoes and traces of other stories, layering over each other in a kind of aural palimpsest.

Quechua Indians --- Quechua language --- Quechua textile fabrics. --- Foxes --- Tales --- Erotic stories --- Social aspects

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Sound-symbolism occurs when words resemble the sounds associated with the phenomena they attempt to describe, rather than an arbitrary representation. For example the word raven is arbitrary in that it does not resemble a raven; cuckoo, however, is sound -symbolic in that it resembles the bird's call. In Sounds Like Life, Janis Nuckolls studies the occurrence of sound-symbolic words in Pastaza Quechua (a dialect of Quechua), which is spoken in eastern Ecuador. The use of sound-symbolic words is much more prevalent in Pastaza Quechua than in any other language, and they symbolize a wider range

Quechua language --- Inca language --- Kechua language --- Quichua language --- Runasimi language --- Cacán language --- Indians of South America --- Onomatopoeic words. --- Aspect. --- Languages --- Aspect --- Onomatopoeic words

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This book presents an innovative analysis that relates informational structure, syntax and morphology in Quechua. It provides a minimalist account of the relationship between focus, topic, evidentiality and other left-peripheral features and sentence-internal constituents marked with suffixes that have been previously considered of a pragmatic nature. Intervention effects show that these relationships are also of a syntactic nature. The analysis is extended to morphological markers that appear on polarity sensitive items and wh-words. The book also provides a brief overview of the main characteristics of Quechua syntax as well as additional bibliographical information.

Quechua language --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Grammar. --- Morphology. --- Syntax. --- Inca language --- Kechua language --- Quichua language --- Runasimi language --- Generative grammar --- Cacán language --- Indians of South America --- Languages --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics).

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Estudio comparativo que aborda una perspectiva antropológica-lingüística, pues combina los intereses y técnicas de la antropología cultural y de la sociolingüística. Examina las identidades culturales en los países andinos (Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia) desde la perspectiva de las ideologías lingüísticas: el juego de creencias, opiniones y valores que informan sobre las actitudes de la gente hacia sus lenguas.

Quechua language --- Language planning --- Anthropological linguistics --- Native language and education --- Multilingualism --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Language and languages --- Native language --- Education --- Language and education --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- Anthropology --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Planned language change --- Sociolinguistics --- Inca language --- Kechua language --- Quichua language --- Runasimi language --- Cacán language --- Indians of South America --- Use in schools --- Planning --- Languages --- Bolivie --- Andes --- Equateur --- langue amérindienne --- civilisation --- identité culturelle --- linguistique --- Pérou --- idéologie --- Quechua