With some 108 independent genealogical units, South America is the linguistically most
diverse region of our planet and presents a particular challenge to linguists seeking to …

Contact-induced linguistics change (or CILC) has been a feature of all known languages,
ancient and modern, and has manifested itself in a great number of ways, which have on …

In this article, I reconsider the evidence for a Central Andean linguistic area. I suggest that
there is no evidence for a clear-cut linguistic area comprising the entire Central Andes …

The strength of long short-term memory neural networks (LSTMs) that have been applied is
more located in handling sequences of variable length than in handling geometric variability …

At the eve of Spanish conquest, northern Peru is thought to have been home to a multitude
of languages of relatively modest geographical extension, especially when compared with …

Chibchan has been labelled as “by all means one of the most intriguing language groups in
the Americas”(Adelaar 2007: 11), and for western researchers, this appears to be …

Abstract Indigenous people across South America tend to be multilingual, and South
American languages exhibit historical contact effects that suggest multilingualism has long …

While research on possible adaptive processes in language history has recently centered
mostly on phonological variables, here, I return the focus on the lexicon in two different …

The Quechuan and Aymaran languages, which are found across the Central Andes and
other places in Western South America, share a special historical relationship. 2 Languages …

Abstract In the Proto-Quechuan lexicon, many two-segment phonetic substrings recur in
semantically related roots, even though they are not independent morphemes. Such …