Willem Adelaar

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Willem FH Adelaar (* 1948 in The Hague ) is a Dutch linguist whose research focuses on the indigenous languages ​​of America . He is Professor of Indigenous American Languages ​​and Cultures at Leiden University .

Adelaar has worked in particular on various Quechua varieties (including Tarma and Pacaraos ), Aymara and Mapudungun , but also on extinct languages ​​such as Culli in northern Peru. His main work is the monograph The Languages ​​of the Andes, published in 2004 . For a wider readership he brought out several works on the history and religion of the Inca as well as translations from Quechua into Dutch . As an expert on minority languages ​​of the Andes, he is also one of the editors of the interactive World Atlas of Endangered Languages ​​from UNESCO .

In 1994 Adelaar was appointed to the newly created Chair of Indigenous American Languages ​​and Cultures at Leiden University. He is convinced that America's linguistic diversity provides a deeper understanding of the history of Ancient America than classical archaeological research into the settlement of America .

In 2014 he was made Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion for his scientific results . The Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima ( Peru ) has awarded him an honorary doctorate . In 2019 Adelaar was elected to the Academia Europaea .

Works (selection)

  • 2009 Unesco Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages ​​in Danger . (regional editor for South America). Paris: UNESCO .
  • 2007 The Languages ​​of the Andes . With the collaboration of PC Muysken . Cambridge language survey. Cambridge University Press. Revised edition. ISBN 978-0-521-36831-5
  • 2007 The importance of toponymy, family names and historical documentation for the study of disappearing and recently extinct languages ​​in the Andean region. In: L. Wetzels (ed.), Language Endangerment and Endangered Languages . Linguistic and anthropological studies with special emphasis on the languages ​​and cultures of the Andean-Amazonian border area, pp. 325-331. Ailment: CNWS.
  • 2007 Ensayo de clasificación del katawixí dentro del conjunto harakmbut - katukina . In: A. Romero Figueroa, A. Fernández Garay and A. Corbera Mori (eds.), Lenguas indígenas de América del Sur: Estudios descriptivo-tipológicos y sus contribuciones para la lingüística teórica , pp. 159-169. Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.
  • 2006 The Quechua impact in the Amuesha language, an Arawak language of the Peruvian Amazon. In: AY Aikhenvald & RMW Dixon (eds.), Grammars in Contact. A Cross-Linguistic Typology , pp. 290-312. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press
  • 1995 Raíces lingüísticas del Quichua de Santiago del Estero. In: A. Fernández Garay & JP Viegas Barros (eds.), Actas de las Segundas Jornadas de Lingüística Aborigen , pp. 25-50. Universidad de Buenos Aires.
  • 1994 La procedencia dialectal del manuscrito de Huarochirí en base a sus características lingüísticas. Revista Andina, 12: 1 , pp. 137-154. Cusco: "Bartolomé de Las Casas" center.
  • 1987 Morfología del quechua de Pacaraos . Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
  • 1987 Aymarismos en el quechua de Puno. Indiana, 11, pp. 223-231. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag.
  • 1982 Léxico del quechua de Pacaraos . Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos: Centro de Investigación de Linguística Aplicada: Documento de Trabajo No. 45.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. dr. WFH (Willem) Adelaar . In: Leiden University Center for Linguistics . University of Leiden. July 8, 2009. Retrieved August 2, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b Taalkundige Willem Adelaar koninklijk onderscheiden . Leyden University News. October 1, 2014.
  3. ^ Preface . In: Eithne B. Carlin, Simon van de Kerke (eds.) (Eds.): Linguistics and Archeology in the Americas: The Historization of Language and Society . BRILL, 2010, pp. Vi-ix.
  4. ↑ Koninklijke onderscheiding voor Prof. dr. Willem Adelaar . Gemeente Leiden. October 1, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Adelaar, Willem
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adelaar, Willem FH
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch linguist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH The Hague , Netherlands