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Eloranta-Barrera Virhuez, R.S. (2020)

Mochica: Grammatical topics and external relations

Doctoral Thesis

This thesis is about the Mochica language, an extinct linguistic isolate that was spoken until the mid- to late-nineteenth century in the northern coastal area of Peru. The aim of this study is twofold. The first goal is to reconstruct and better understand the Mochica language, in order to achieve the second goal of this research: a comparison of the Mochica language with other languages, which could potentially allow the establishment of contact or genealogical relations.

This thesis includes a brief grammatical sketch of the Mochica language, as well as the reconstruction of some of its grammatical aspects (nominal possession, numeral classification, and nominalization) and its phonology. The thesis also offers the results of the grammatical and lexical comparison carried out between the Mochica language and other surrounding languages, and with other typologically similar languages.

This thesis will be of interest to linguists who...

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This thesis is about the Mochica language, an extinct linguistic isolate that was spoken until the mid- to late-nineteenth century in the northern coastal area of Peru. The aim of this study is twofold. The first goal is to reconstruct and better understand the Mochica language, in order to achieve the second goal of this research: a comparison of the Mochica language with other languages, which could potentially allow the establishment of contact or genealogical relations.

This thesis includes a brief grammatical sketch of the Mochica language, as well as the reconstruction of some of its grammatical aspects (nominal possession, numeral classification, and nominalization) and its phonology. The thesis also offers the results of the grammatical and lexical comparison carried out between the Mochica language and other surrounding languages, and with other typologically similar languages.

This thesis will be of interest to linguists who study indigenous languages of the Americas, Andean Linguistics and Linguistic Typology.

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Mochica language
Extinct language
Northern Peruvian coast
Andean Linguistics
Missionary Linguistics
All authors
Eloranta-Barrera Virhuez, R.S.
Supervisor
Adelaar, W.F.H.
Co-supervisor
Wichmann, S.K.
Committee
Bruil, M.; Cerrón-Palomina, R.; Crevels, M.; Gijn, R. van; Mous, M.; Silva, P.; Zwartjes, O.
Qualification
Doctor (dr.)
Awarding Institution
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University
Date
2020-05-12
Title of host publication
LOT dissertation series
Publisher
Utrecht: LOT
ISBN (print)
9789460933486

Publication Series

Name
563

Funding

Sponsorship
The research for this thesis was carried out as part of the project “The Linguistic Past of Mesoamerica and the Andes (Mesandlin(g)k)”, financed by the European Research Council (ERC), under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) / ERC Grant Agreement no. 295918.