Aymara

Aymara Inflection

This chapter describes the complex nominal and verbal inflection systems of Aymara, highlighting its agglutinative nature and rich morphological features.

Jan 19, 2016

An ethnomusical and linguistic description of the Añasita song as sung by the Aymara of Muylaq'i

This paper presents an ethnomusical and linguistic analysis of the traditional 'Añasita' song from the Aymara-speaking community of Muylaq'i in Peru.

Jan 1, 2015

Rule-based machine translation for Aymara

This chapter demonstrates how rule-based machine translation can be developed for endangered languages like Aymara, serving both as a language learning tool and a means for preserving linguistic diversity.

Dec 4, 2014

A Grammar of Muylaq' Aymara: Aymara as Spoken in Southern Peru

A comprehensive grammar of a previously undescribed variety of Aymara spoken in the remote Andean village of Muylaque, Peru.

Nov 27, 2014

The Grammatical Expression of Dialogicity in Muylaq'Aymara Narratives

This article examines how dialogicity is expressed grammatically in Aymara oral narratives through tense, evidentiality, and the verb 'say'.

Apr 1, 2014

A descriptive analysis of Castellano loanwords into Muylaq'Aymara

This study examines how Spanish loanwords are morphologically and semantically adapted when incorporated into Muylaq'Aymara, revealing patterns of semantic expansion, restriction, and grammatical reanalysis.

Nov 28, 2013

Pragmatic structures in Aymara

This paper examines how information structure is marked in Aymara through pragmatic suffixes rather than word order, challenging its classification as a discourse-configurational language.

Aug 1, 2013

Causatives as complex predicates without the restriction operator

This paper proposes a novel approach to modeling causatives as complex predicates in Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) without using the restriction operator, thereby preserving the monotonicity of the formalism.

Jul 1, 2013