Book contents
- Conversations on Dictionaries
- Conversations on Dictionaries
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1Ancient Greek
- 2Esperanto
- 3German
- 4Chinese
- 5Hybrid Languages
- 6English
- 7French
- 8Italian
- 9Arabic
- 10Hebrew
- 11Indigenous Languages
- 12Irish
- 13African Languages
- 14Nahuatl
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- 16Portuguese
- 17Japanese
- 18Russian
- 19Quechua
- 20Scandinavian
- 21Spanish
- Epilogue
- Index
- References
19 - Quechua
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Book contents
- Conversations on Dictionaries
- Conversations on Dictionaries
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1Ancient Greek
- 2Esperanto
- 3German
- 4Chinese
- 5Hybrid Languages
- 6English
- 7French
- 8Italian
- 9Arabic
- 10Hebrew
- 11Indigenous Languages
- 12Irish
- 13African Languages
- 14Nahuatl
- 15Yiddish
- 16Portuguese
- 17Japanese
- 18Russian
- 19Quechua
- 20Scandinavian
- 21Spanish
- Epilogue
- Index
- References
Summary
This conversation between Ilan Stavans and Odi Gonzales focuses on the oral character of Quechua which persists as a language with a tendency toward concrete actions (performative verbs), no concepts, no abstractions. It looks at the history of Quechua in the context of Indigenous languages before, during, and after the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth century, focusing on its revival in the second half of the twentieth century. The conversation is also about the Quechua-Spanish-English-Dictionary: A Hippocrene Trilingual Reference (2018) and about a translation of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote of la Mancha into Quechua.
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- Conversations on DictionariesThe Universe in a Book, pp. 241 - 247Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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