Willem Adelaar
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Willem F. H. Adelaar is a Dutch
linguist on American autochthonous languages, specially Andean languages. He is Professor of indigenous American Linguistics and Cultures at Leiden University
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Dutch people
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linguist on American autochthonous languages, specially Andean languages. He is Professor of indigenous American Linguistics and Cultures at Leiden University
Leiden University
Leiden University , located in the city of Leiden, is the oldest university in the Netherlands. The university was founded in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, leader of the Dutch Revolt in the Eighty Years' War. The royal Dutch House of Orange-Nassau and Leiden University still have a close...
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Selected publications
- 2009 Unesco Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. (regional editor for South America). Paris: UNESCOUNESCOThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
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- 2007 The Languages of the Andes. With the collaboration of P.C. Muysken. Cambridge language survey. Cambridge University Press. Revised edition. ISBN 9780521368315
- 2007 The importance of toponymyToponymyToponymy is the scientific study of place names , their origins, meanings, use and typology. The word "toponymy" is derived from the Greek words tópos and ónoma . Toponymy is itself a branch of onomastics, the study of names of all kinds...
, family names and historical documentation for the study of disappearing and recently extinct languages in the Andean region. In: L. WetzelsLeo WetzelsWillem Leo Marie Wetzels is a full professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Directeur de recherche at Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie , CNRS/Sorbonne-Nouvelle in Paris...
(ed.), Language Endangerment and Endangered Languages. Linguistic and anthropological studies with special emphasis on the languages and cultures of the Andean-Amazonian border area, pp. 325–331. Leiden: CNWS.
- 2007 Ensayo de clasificación del katawixí dentro del conjunto harakmbut-katukina. In: A. Romero Figueroa, A. Fernández Garay and A. Corbera Mori (eds.), Lenguas indígenas de América del Sur: Estudios descriptivo-tipológicos y sus contribuciones para la lingüística teórica, pp. 159–169. Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.
- 2006 The Quechua impact in AmueshaAmueshaAmuesha, Amoesha, and Yanesha may refer to two things:* The Yanesha' people', of Peru.* The Yanesha' language, a Maipurean language spoken by the Yanesha' people....
, an ArawakArawakan languagesMacro-Arawakan is a proposed language family of South America and the Caribbean based on the Arawakan languages. Sometimes the proposal is called Arawakan, in which case the central family is called Maipurean....
language of the Peruvian Amazon. In: A.Y. Aikhenvald & R.M.W. Dixon (eds.), Grammars in Contact. A Cross-Linguistic Typology, pp. 290–312. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
- 1995 Raíces lingüísticas del Quichua de Santiago del Estero. In: A. Fernández Garay & J.P. Viegas Barros (eds.), Actas de las Segundas Jornadas de Lingüística Aborigen, pp. 25–50. Universidad de Buenos Aires.
- 1994 La procedencia dialectal del manuscrito de Huarochirí en base a sus características lingüísticas. Revista Andina, 12:1, pp. 137–154. Cusco: Centro "Bartolomé de Las Casas".
- 1987 Morfología del quechua de PacaraosPacaraos QuechuaPacaraos Quechua is a variety of Quechua spoken until the middle of the 20th century in the community of Pacaraos in the Peruvian Lima Region in the Chancay valley up to 3000 m above sea level....
. Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
- 1987 Aymarismos en el quechua de Puno. Indiana, 11, pp. 223‑231. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag.
- 1982 Léxico del quechua de PacaraosPacaraos QuechuaPacaraos Quechua is a variety of Quechua spoken until the middle of the 20th century in the community of Pacaraos in the Peruvian Lima Region in the Chancay valley up to 3000 m above sea level....
. Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos: Centro de Investigación de Linguística Aplicada: Documento de Trabajo No. 45.
External links
- MA Indian American Studies Programme Director of Indian American Studies
- Leiden University Centre for Linguistics Homepage at University Leiden