TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ---------------------- cere nner
ABSTRACT --------------- n-ne on nr rrr rrr rire
CHAPTER
] INTRODUCTION -------------------------------
1-1 Demography --------------- enn --
1-1.1 Number and location of Aymara
speakers ------ n-ne cn rn renner nee
]-1.2 Status ----------------- nee renee
1-1.3 Monolingualism, bilingualism,
and multilingualism -----------------
1-2 History ~----------- een n nce rene
1-2.1 Language family ---------------------
1-2.2 Dialects ----------------------------
1-2.3 Summary description of La Paz
Aymara ~----------------r errr errr
1-3 The Present Study -------------------
1-3.1 Theoretical bases -------------------
1-3.2 Purposes and scope ------------------
1-3.3 Methodology and data ----------------
1-3.4 Sites and sources -------------------
1-3.5 Organization of the study -----------
1-3.6 Conventions and terminology ---------
2 A SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE -----------------
2-1] Introduction -------------<----------
2-2 Colonial Period ---------------------
2-3 Prelinguistic Studies--19th and 20th

Centuries ---------------------------

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