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South-American Languages in a Formal Perspective

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Formal Approaches to Languages of South America

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South America extends, north to south, from Punta Gallinas in Colombia to the Drake Passage in Cape Horn and, east to west, from Cabo Branco in Brazil (Ponta do Seixas) to Punta Pariñas in Peru, being the fourth largest world’s continent in territory and 50th in population. It is one of our last storehouses of natural resources, including fauna, flora, mineral, and hydric reserves. However, for centuries, South America’s natural reserves have been increasingly depleted without much concern and planning. The present book is devoted to another, even less minded, often ignored, treasure of South America: linguistic diversity. Although some of us, linguists, defend that language is part of our genetic endowment, while others take it to be a cultural asset, we all agree that languages are a humankind patrimony, and linguistic preservation, documentation, and analysis are priorities, especially when minority languages are considered. Thus, studies on languages of South America are first concern.

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    But note that even if one does not ascribe to the idea that linguistic theory is a branch of cognitive psychology, one can still characterize syntax as a complex system of axioms under which each sentence of a given language is formally derived as a theorem of such axiomatic system.

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    Romania Nova is a term coined by Francisco Ordóñez and Mary A. Kato to refer to the Romance languages spoken in the Americas and to the research project #14 within the Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de América Latina (ALFAL). The reader can visit the website of the project at https://sites.google.com/view/romania-nova/p%C3%A1gina-principal, where a list of activities including recent publications is available.

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    “Type I are languages where numerals combine directly with some nouns, but not with others, which require insertion of a measure phrase. English is an example of Type I, because of the contrast between three chairs and *three blood(s), three ounces/drops of blood.” (Pires de Oliveira this volume).

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Rodrigues, C., Saab, A. (2023). South-American Languages in a Formal Perspective. In: Rodrigues, C., Saab, A. (eds) Formal Approaches to Languages of South America. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22344-0_1

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