Valenzuela P., Guillaume A. Estudios sincrónicos y diacrónicos sobre lenguas Pano y Takana: una introducción

Опубликовано в: AMERINDIA 39(1), 2017. — p. 1-49.Written by a specialist in Panoan languages and a specialist in Takanan languages, this article opens the first publication devoted to the joint analysis of phonological and grammatical aspects in these two South American families. The Panoan family comprises over thirty extant and extinct languages from the bordering regions of Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia, whereas the Takanan family is nowadays composed of five languages spoken in northern Bolivia, one of which extends into southeastern Peru. After offering a contemporary overview of Panoan and Takanan languages, we register, in chronological order, the main descriptive works on these languages. The studies are organized in three different periods according to the characteristics of most authors: (a) studies by missionaries and explorers, (b) studies by missionary-linguists affiliated to the Summer Institute of Linguistics, and (c) doctoral dissertations containing substantial synchronic descriptions of particular languages. With regard to Panoan languages we
must highlight within the third period the protagonism of Brazilian and Peruvian linguists, trained, at least partially, in universities of their respective countries of origin. Then, we deal with the internal classification of the Panoan and Takanan families, the efforts to reconstruct the respective
protolanguages, and the various proposals of external relations of these two families, including the discussion of the probable genetic relationship between Panoan and Takanan. Next, we provide a list of linguistic features shared by both families, as well as other features specific to each family.
Finally, we summarize the contents of the remaining twelve articles that make the present collection. These are organized in four thematic groups: phonology and prosody, verbal morphology, argument marking, and agreement.