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A comparative wordlist for the languages of The Gran Chaco, South America. [PDF]
Home to more than twenty indigenous languages belonging to six linguistic families, the Gran Chaco has raised the interest of many linguists from different backgrounds.
Brid N, Messineo C, List JM.
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Cada idioma, de hecho, por su propia naturaleza, está sujeto a cambios con el tiempo. La lingüística histórica estudia el cambio de las lenguas desde una perspectiva diacrónica, es decir, a través del tiempo, por lo que se denomina también lingüística ...
Ciucci, Luca
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Editorial work outside the epistemic dungeon: studying “language and culture” in difficult times [PDF]
It is a complicated, often contradictory and difficult process, but we do enjoy facing the challenge of leaving the “epistemic dungeon” by acknowledging specifically the individualism and artful voices of many contributors of The Mouth.
Hoffmann, Anette +5 more
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Réplication grammaticale : indices verbaux de première personne non singulier en toba oriental, toba occidental (guaycuru) et tapiete (tupi-guaraní) [PDF]
In this paper we suggest that linguistic features can show traces of the frequency and intensity of social interactions between indigenous peoples. We focus on peoples of the alluvial fan of the Pilcomayo River (South American Chaco), and analyze first ...
Carpio, María Belén +2 more
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Parallel modernities. Notes on artistic modernity in the Southern Cone of Latin America: The case of Paraguay [PDF]
The author of this article is one of the most important intellectuals in the Latin American artistic scene. Focusing on the particular case of Paraguay, which was governed by the dictatorship of Alfred Stroessner from 1954 until 1989, Escobar traces the ...
Escobar, T., Macartney, H. (translator)
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Pre-colonial institutions and socioeconomic development: The case of Latin America [PDF]
We study the effects of pre-colonial institutions on present-day socioeconomic outcomes for Latin America. Our thesis is that more advanced pre-colonial institutions relate to better socioeconomic outcomes today. We advance that pre-colonial institutions
Angeles, Luis, Elizalde, Aldo
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The cultural phenomenon of exhibiting non-European people in front of the European audiences in the 19th and 20th century was concentrated in the metropolises in the western part of the continent.
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Parataxis, hypotaxis and para-hypotaxis in the Zamucoan languages
The term "para-hypotaxis" is commonly used by Romance linguists to refer to sentences containing a proleptic dependent clause, with the main clause introduced by a coordinator.
Pier Marco Bertinetto, Luca Ciucci
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Linguistic taboos in Ayoreo [PDF]
The present paper will address linguistic taboos in Ayoreo, a Zamucoan language spoken in the Chaco area of southeastern Bolivia and northern Paraguay. In addressing linguistic taboos, one has to distinguish between taboos motivated by religious beliefs ...
Ciucci, Luca, Pia, Gabriella Erica
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Inflectional Morphology in the Zamucoan Languages [PDF]
[Extract] According to the traditional classification, the Zamucoan family consists of two living languages, Ayoreo and Chamacoco, spoken in the Chaco Boreal area, in southeastern Bolivia and northwestern Paraguay.
Ciucci, Luca
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