Title
Panoan linguistics and dialects in Purus: A phylogenetic approach
Other title
Lenguas y dialectos pano del Purus: una aproximacion filogenetica
Date Issued
01 January 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Pontificia Univ Catolica Peru
Abstract
The present paper aims to provide a classification of the Panoan linguistic varieties spoken in the province of Purus (Ucayali, Peru). The data covers lexical information coming from nine Panoan linguistic varieties of the Purus province, as well as grammatical information taken from eight of them. The data have been analyzed using phylogenetic methods and show the need of including all these languages in a single Panoan subgroup. The results, however, show inconsistent trends between the lexical and the grammatical data: lexical data suggest the existence of three well-defined linguistic units, while the grammatical data point towards the existence of four. This fact opens interesting questions regarding the so-called Yaminawa dialectal continuum. Finally, this paper discusses the position of Iskonawa (an obsolescent Panoan language) in relation to the languages of Purus. The data shows that Iskonawa is closely-related to the languages of the Purus region.
Start page
83
End page
120
Volume
41
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Lingüística
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85032835878
Source
Lexis (Peru)
ISSN of the container
02549239
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