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A grammar of Yauyos Quechua


Author: Shimelman, Aviva
Source: Directory of Open Access Books
Publisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 9783946234227;9783946234234
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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.