Acknowledgments -- Notational conventions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phonology and morphophonemics -- 3. Substantives -- 4. Verbs -- 5. Particles -- 6. Enclitics -- 7. Syntax -- Appendix A: Analysis of the Southern Yauyos Quecha lexicon -- Appendix B: Further analysis of evidential modifiers -- References -- Index
Summary
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
