Eithne B. Carlin, Ph.D. (1992) in General and African Linguistics, University of Cologne, is senior lecturer at Leiden University. She has published extensively on the Amerindian languages of the Guianas, including A Grammar of Trio, a Cariban Language of Suriname (Peter Lang, 2004).Simon van de Kerke, Ph.D. (1996) in General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, is senior lecturer at Leiden University. He is specialized in indigenous languages of Bolivia and has been editor of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (ILLA) series since 2000.

• CONTENTSPreface Acknowledgements Bibliography of Willem F.H. Adelaar PART IHISTORICAL COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS OF SOUTH AMERICA1. Linguistic Reconstruction of Elements of Prehistoric Tupi Culture - Aryon Dall’Igna Rodrigues2. Problems of Distinguishing Nominal Compounding from Syntactic and Noun Categorization Devices inTupi-Guarani Languages - Wolf DietrichPART IIARCHAEOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS OF MESO-AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN3. Preposed Phonetic Complements in Maya Hieroglyphic Writing - Nikolai Grube4. Mixtec Cultural Vocabulary and Pictorial Writing - Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen and Gabina Aurora Pérez Jiménez5. Unspecified Arguments, Predicates, and Events in Nahuatl - Michel Launey6. The Ever-Dynamic Caribbean: Exploring New Approaches to Unraveling Social Networks in the Pre-Colonial and Early Colonial Periods - Corinne L. Hofman and Eithne B. CarlinPART IIISOCIOLINGUISTICS7. ‘Why do they steal our phonemes?’ Inventing the Survival of the Cañari Language (Ecuador) - Rosaleen Howard8. Lenguas e Ídentidades Étnicas - Xavier AlbóPART IVMORPHOPHONOLOGY AND MORPHOSYNTAX9. Sobre el Morfo Vacío -ni del Quechua - Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino10. The Copula in Ecuadorian Quechua - Pieter Muysken11. O ‘Caduco’ e o ‘Frustrativo’ nas Línguas Baniwa do Içana e Nheengatu (Alto Rio Negro, Brasil) - Gerald Taylor12. Reflexivity and Reciprocity in Tehuelche and Selknam (Chon family) - Ana Fernández Garay13. Gender, Noun Class and Language Obsolescence: The Case of Paumarí - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald14. Word Prosody and the Distribution of Oral/Nasal Contour Consonants in Kaingang - W. Leo WetzelsSubject Index List of Contributors