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[Typological Studies in Language 135] 2025
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Combining disparate lines of evidence in the study of the history of language isolates, exemplified with Mochica from Northern Peru

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Published online: 16 January 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.135.06urb
Abstract
This article provides a synthesizing discussion of different lines of evidence for the linguistic history of the Mochica language (Northern Peru). Among the topics discussed are the inference of the former geographic extension through toponymic study; the study of indigenous personal names as a fertile source of information on grammatical structure, particularly the genesis and nature of an unusual numeral classifier system; internal reconstruction; local as well as rather spectacular cases of long-distance language contact; areal typology; sociolinguistic typology; the reconstruction of outlines of the social ecology of the language in its pre-Columbian context; and the interdisciplinary contextualization of linguistic data with that of other disciplines that study human prehistory. Thus, the article provides an exemplary case study of the richly textured picture which a multi-pronged approach can paint on the history of isolates.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Background information on Mochica
  • 3.Phonetic and phonological structure: Change and stability in the attested period
  • 4.Toponymy and geographic extent
  • 5.Anthroponymy as a source for insights into grammatical structure and grammaticalization processes
  • 6.Internal reconstruction
  • 7.Loanwords
  • 8.Areal typology
  • 9.Sociolinguistic typology
  • 10.Interdisciplinary perspectives I: Language and society in prehistory
  • 11.Interdisciplinary perspectives II: Mochica and the Northern Peruvian interaction sphere in the context of archaeology and molecular anthropology
  • 12.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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