This book investigates the contact between Arawak and Tucanoan languages spoken in the Vaupes river basin in northwest Amazonia, which spans Colombia and Brazil. In this region language is seen as a badge of identity: language mixing is resisted for ideological reasons. The book considers which parts of the language categories are likely to be borrowed. This study also examines changes brought about by recent contact with European languages and culture, and the linguistic effects of language obsolescence.

1. Language contact and language change in Amazonia

2. Diffusional phenomena in phonology

3. Typological profile and pronominal systems of East Tucanoan and Arawak languages

4. Nominal categories and diffusion

5. Diffusion of verbal categories

6. Diffusional phenomena in syntax and in discourse

7. The impact of Portuguese on Tariana8. How to keep languages apart: code-switching and code-mixing

9. Language awareness and correct speech among the Tariana

10. Diffusion of patterns and direct diffusion in the Vaupes

11. Language obsolescence and language change in Tariana

12. Language contact in multilingual

Alexandra Aikhenvald is Professor of Linguistics and Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University. She was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 1980-89, and Professor of Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, until 1994.

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