A Grammar of Yauyos Quechua

This book presents a synchronic grammar of the southern dialects of Yauyos, an extremely endangered Quechuan language spoken in the Peruvian Andes. As the language is highly synthetic, the grammar focuses principally on morphology; a longer section is dedicated to the language's unusual evidential system. The grammar's 1400 examples are drawn from a 24-hour corpus of transcribed recordings collected in the course of the documentation of the language.
Yauyos is a critically endangered Quechuan language spoken in the Peruvian Andes, in the Province of Yauyos, Department of Lima. The language counts eight dialects. These are listed below in Table 1.1. At the time I undertook my research in the area, three of these had already become extinct. The missing dialects are those formerly spoken in the north of the province: Alis-Tomas (at), Huancaya-Vitis (hv) and Laraos (l).1 This grammar, therefore, unfortunately, covers only the five southern dialects: Apurí-Madeán-Viñac (amv), Azángaro- Chocos-Huangáscar (ach), Cacra-Hongos (ch), Lincha-Tana (lt) and Liscay-San Pedro (sp).