Tracing social history from synchronic linguistic and ethnographic data: The prehistory of Resígaro contact with Bora
The Amazonian language Resígaro was heavily influenced by the unrelated, neighboring Bora language. Bora influence involves cultural assimilation, some loanwords, and heavy morphological borrowing. What social circumstances lead to this influence? This paper reviews our current knowledge about the...
- Autores:
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Seifart, Frank
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2015
- Institución:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/67066
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/67066
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/68094/
- Palabra clave:
- 5 Ciencias naturales y matemáticas / Science
3 Ciencias sociales / Social sciences
Language contact
Resígaro
Bora
Ethnohistory
contacto de lenguas
resígaro
bora
etnohistoria
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
| Summary: | The Amazonian language Resígaro was heavily influenced by the unrelated, neighboring Bora language. Bora influence involves cultural assimilation, some loanwords, and heavy morphological borrowing. What social circumstances lead to this influence? This paper reviews our current knowledge about the cultural and linguistic features that Resígaro borrowed from Bora and interprets these as reflecting a particular social history involving bilingualism and ceremonial exchange. |
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