Raúl Bendezú-Araujo

Universität Potsdam · Department Linguistik

This poster presents an analysis of the Conchucos Quechua enclitic =mi in a speaker commitments framework.

For most Quechuan languages, the discourse enclitic =mi has been described as a (contrastive) focus marker and/or as a marker of direct evidentiality. In this paper, I argue that these claims do not seem to apply to Conchucos Quechua (Ancash, Peru). To challenge the association between =mi and focus, I offer a quantitative analysis that strongly su...

This special issue focuses on the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of truth-marking. The names that have been used to refer to this phenomenon include, among others, counter-assertive focus, polar(ity) focus, verum focus, emphatic polarity or simply verum. This terminological variety is suggestive of the wide range of ideas and conceptions t...

The literature on Quechuan languages describes the enclitics =mi and =chi as markers of evidentiality, with the former indicating direct evidence and the latter marking conjecture or inference. In this paper, I argue that in Conchucos Quechua they can be better characterised as markers of two degrees of assertional force, which the speakers use for...

This sketch offers a grammatical overview of Cuzco Quechua, a Southern Quechua language spoken in the southern Peruvian Andes by nearly 1.5 million speakers. Within the Quechuan family, Cuzco Quechua is probably the most studied language. However, the most relevant sources are written in Spanish (and one in French) and in editions that are no longe...

In this contribution, we concentrate on some constructions of Spanish as it is spoken by bilingual speakers of Spanish and Quechua in the town of Huari in the Conchucos valley in Ancash in Northern Peru (henceforth Conchucos Spanish), because this is the community to which we have the best empirical access. We will present phenomena that can be rel...

En esta disertación exploro los vínculos entre la categoría de estructura de informacional de foco y las nociones de aserción e identificación. Para ello, ofrezco un análisis comparativo de corte cualitativo de dos estrategias de marcación de foco en el quechua de Conchucos (Áncash, Perú): el uso de sufijos evidenciales (limitado a los marcadores d...

This data set corresponds to the Spanish language, as spoken in the Huari province of Ancash, Peru. All audio files are transcribed, and translated to Spanish and English. Data available at: https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/29497 The project documents dialogues between speakers from multilingual communities in Latin America. To be abl...

This data set corresponds to the Quechua language, as spoken in the Huari province of Ancash, Peru. All audio files are transcribed, morphologically segmented, glossed and translated to Spanish and English. Data available at: https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/25747 The project documents dialogues between speakers from multilingual comm...

Literaturas orales y primeros textos coloniales ofrece un panorama de la diversidad lingüística prehispánica, de los esfuerzos por codificar la escritura del quechua y del aimara, así como de las primeras décadas del español en el Perú. Muestra, igualmente, cómo estos recursos idiomáticos se ponen al servicio de una variada producción discursiva or...

Within the framework of colonial Andean studies, the image of Juan Perez Bocanegra, parish priest of Andahuaylillas (Cuzco), is highly regarded, and his work is often cited as a very reliable source. The most significant contribution of this cleric to our knowledge of the Andean past lies in its detailed description of the Quechua kinship system. H...

(Texto completo disponible en aquí: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/4526) El trabajo de tesis que presentamos tiene como objetivo examinar la forma en que se ha documentado el sistema de términos de parentesco del quechua durante el periodo colonial temprano (siglos XVI-XVII) y determinar cuál era la constitución formal de este paradigma léxico...