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Although language-family specific traits which do not find direct counterparts outside a given language family are usually ignored in quantitative phylogenetic studies, scholars have made ample use of them in qualitative investigations, revealing their potential for identifying language relationships. An example of such a family specific trait are...
While global patterns of human genetic diversity are increasingly well characterized, the diversity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here we outline the Grambank database. With over 400,000 data points and 2,400 languages, Grambank is the largest comparative grammatical database available. The comprehensiveness of Grambank...
Language modelling and machine translation tasks mostly use subword or character inputs, but syllables are seldom used. Syllables provide shorter sequences than characters, require less-specialised extracting rules than morphemes, and their segmentation is not impacted by the corpus size. In this study, we first explore the potential of syllables f...
In this paper, we launch a new Universal Dependencies treebank for an endangered language from Amazonia: Kakataibo, a Panoan language spoken in Peru. We first discuss the collaborative methodology implemented, which proved effective to create a treebank in the context of a Computational Linguistic course for undergraduates. Then, we describe the ge...
The Universal Morphology (UniMorph) project is a collaborative effort providing broad-coverage instantiated normalized morphological inflection tables for hundreds of diverse world languages. The project comprises two major thrusts: a language-independent feature schema for rich morphological annotation and a type-level resource of annotated data i...
A partir de la integración de dos campos de investigación, la etnobiología lingüística y la documentación de lenguas, este libro ofrece la primera introducción sistemática a las manifestaciones lingüísticas del conocimiento sobre la naturaleza del pueblo kakataibo. El autor, Roberto Zariquiey, nos presenta al pueblo kakataibo, su lengua y sus estra...
Words are not isolated entities within a language. In this paper, we measure the number of choices transmitted in natural language by means of the von Neumann entropy of language networks. This quantity, introduced in Quantum Information accounts, provides a detailed characterization of network complexities. The simulations are based on a large par...
Lexical borrowing, the transfer of words from one language to another, is one of the most frequent processes in language evolution. In order to detect borrowings, linguists make use of various strategies, combining evidence from various sources. Despite the increasing popularity of computational approaches in comparative linguistics, automated appr...
The present paper lists and illustrates eleven strategies that are systematically used by Shipibo-Konibo speakers in order to comment live soccer matches in the context of an indigenous soccer cup informally called “Mundialito Shipibo”. We argue that these lexical, morphosyntactic and discursive strategies can be classified into three types accordi...
This paper presents the first phonetic description of the patterns of nasal coarticulation in Kakataibo. While closely related Panoan languages have been described as having anticipatory nasal coarticulation in VN sequences, there are only a few reports of other types of nasal coarticulation. Based on a detailed investigation of the aerodynamic pro...
Following the methods and tools developed by Hammarström, Castermans, Forkel et al. (2018) for the simultaneous visualization of the vitality status and degree of documentation of the worlds languages, this paper provides a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the achievements and the challenges in the documentation and description of Peruvian...
This paper offers the first characterization of the ethnobiological taxonomic system used by the Kakataibo people (Pano, Peru) to classify and organize their knowledge about nature. The study follows the six ranks proposed for folk taxonomies (see Berlin et al 197; Berlin 1992), but the data suggest that the Kakataibo taxonomic system exhibits an e...
The present chapter deals with some well-attested diachronic developments of body-part nouns in languages belonging to a sample of language families of South America. Body-part nouns in these languages are often implicated in the development of locative adpositions, classifiers of different sorts, and body-part prefixes (as described for Panoan lan...
Kakataibo (a Panoan language spoken in Peru) encodes emotional meanings by means of various morphological and prosodic devices. Some of them may be related to pragmatic implications (like the expression of affection by the diminutive), but others constitute dedicated emotional markers (as is the case of the illocutionary suffixes, augmentative nomi...
The present paper describes and illustrates the main naming strategies attested in a lexical database of 1233 Kakataibo names of plant and animals. Seven naming strategies are proposed for Kakataibo ethnobiological nomenclature: coining, morphological derivation, borrowing, ethnobiological polysemy, compounding and grammatical nominalization (the l...
Resumen Abstract The aim of this article is explaining, through the Critical discourse analysis (CDA), how the racist discourse of the elites of the city of Satipo (province of the Rainforest of Peru) has penetrated and it has naturalized into the young Ashaninka students who have migrated from their communities to do their professional studies in...
This paper discusses objecthood in Kakataibo (Panoan, Peru) by studying three different types of non-subject arguments in the language: objects of transitive predicates, quasi-objects, and oblique objects. Quasi-objects are similar to objects because of their lack of overt case marking, but they appear with intransitive predicates. Oblique objects...
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 met...
This paper studies forms attested in Kakataibo (Panoan, Peru) for situating the information presented by the speaker from the perspective of the addressee. The constructions discussed can satisfactorily be accounted for by means of the notions of epistemic status and epistemic stance, which have to do with the knowing status of speech act participa...
The present paper examines the different types of plant and animal names used in Kakataibo (Pano, Peru) in terms of the typology of ethnobiological nomenclature proposed by Berlin et al. (1973; slightly modified in Berlin 1992). While doing so, this paper highlights and discusses the major issues posited by the Kakataibo ethnobiological lexicon, wh...
En su clásico volumen de 1930, Günter Tessmann ofrece una lista léxica del idioma , que corresponde a la lengua que actualmente se conoce, entre otras denominaciones, como cashibo-cacataibo. La lista de Tessmann ofrece 31 palabras en los tres dialectos que el autor identifica más 81 entradas con información solo sobre uno de ellos: ). En el present...
The present paper offers a description of ditransitive constructions in Kashibo-Kakataibo (Panoan, Peru). While doing so, this paper challenges what can be called the “non-distinguishable objects analysis”, which stipulates that, in some Panoan languages, the two objects of ditransitive constructions cannot be syntactically distinguished. I not onl...
In this paper, we provide a discussion of the most appealing morphosyn-tactic and semantic properties of causative constructions in Cashibo-Caca-taibo (Panoan, Peru), from a typological-functional perspective. We will see that this language presentes a causative morpheme general-mi, and several other morphological and lexical causatives strategies...
Most Panoan languages have closed sets of about 30 monosyllabic forms that attach phonologically to the front of nouns, adjectives, and verbs. These forms, mainly designating body-part notions and semantic extensions of these, appear at first glance to be synchronically derived from polysyllabic body-part noun roots. This paper offers the first det...
El cashibo-cacataibo es una lengua Pano hablada en la Amazonía peruana. Esta lengua presenta, pese a su número relativamente reducido de hablantes, una rica diversidad dialectal. Aunque la dialectología de este idioma ya ha sido documentada previamente por G. Tessmann y L. WistrandRobinson, entre otros, en el presente artículo, nos proponemos ofrec...
El propósito central del presente trabajo es ofrecer un listado de los principales procesos y cambios que permiten explicar la estructura fonológica con la cual han pasado a la lengua shipibo-conibo los diversos préstamos léxicos que sus hablantes han ido tomando del español.
El documento es una investigación relacionada a los Kichwa y a la revaloración de su lengua. Expone los derechos de los kichwas, una planificación lingüística, un diagnóstico sociolingüístico y las acciones para la revaloración lingüística del kichwa. El documento presenta espacios y preguntas para la reflexión de los temas desarrollados. El anexo...
