The Oxford Guide to the Languages of the Central Andes

Matthias Urban is Researcher at the CNRS laboratory "Dynamique du language", where he directs an ERC project on historical dynamics in language geography. He has held prior appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the universities of Leiden, Marburg, and Tübingen, where he was principal investigator of the Junior Research Group "The Language Dynamics of the Ancient Central Andes," hosted by the University of Tübingen and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)'s Emmy Noether Programme. His research interests include historical linguistics, in particular of the Andes, language contact, and linguistic typology.

• Part I. Background and context 1: Matthias Urban: Introduction: Central Andean linguistic diversity and the diversity of Central Andean linguistics 2: Peter Kaulicke: Physical geography and cultural trajectory of the Central Andes 3: Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino: Historical linguistics, philology, and the development of Andean linguistics Part II. Language profiles 4: Carlos Molina-Vital: Huaylas (Ancash) Quechua 5: Aviva Shimelman: Southern Yauyos Quechua 6: Aviva Shimelman and Jairo Valqui: Chachapoyas Quechua 7: Raúl Bendezú Araujo and Jorge Acurio-Palma: Cuzco Quechua 8: Matt Coler: Aymara 9: Matt Coler: Jaqaru 10: Katja Hannß: Uru and Chipaya 11: Matthias Urban: Mochica 12: Nicholas Q. Emlen, Willem F. H. Adelaar, Simon van de Kerke, and Arjan Mossel: Puquina 13: Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus: Hibito and Cholón 14: Matthias Urban: Small and extinct languages of Northern Peru 15: Pieter Muysken: Kallawaya 16: Luis Andrade Ciudad: The Andean Spanish of Southern Peru and Bolivia Part III. Comparative studies 17: Lev Michael and Allegra Robertson: Central Andean segmental phonologies in continental perspective 18: Olga Krasnoukhova: The morphology of the nominal domain in the languages of the Central Andes 19: Matthias Pache: The grammar of the verb in the languages of the Central Andes 20: Rik van Gijn: Syntactic structures in the languages of the Central Andes 21: Karolina Grzech: Discourse, information structure, and evidentiality in the Central Andes 22: Johanna Nichols: Linguistic complexity in the Central Andes Part IV. Language history 23: Paul Heggarty: Expansions and language shift in prehistory 24: Matthias Urban: Language ecologies and dynamics in the ancient Central Andes 25: César Itier: Language diffusion and state agency: Quechuan in Inca and colonial times Part V. Language contact, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology 26: Nicholas Q. Emlen: The Quechuan-Aymaran relationship 27: Anna María Escobar: Contact between indigenous languages of the Central Andes and Spanish: Linguistic outcomes as cases of contra-hierarchical diffusion 28: Rosaleen Howard: Language ideologies and the Quechuan family 29: Nicholas Q. Emlen, Rik van Gijn, and Sietze Norder: The Andean-Amazonian interface: Sociolinguistic relations and areal-typological patterns 30: Joshua Shapero: Language and the Andean environment