Rodolfo Marcial Cerrón-Palomino Balbín (born February 10, 1940, in Huancayo,

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

) is a

vian

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

who has crucially contributed to the investigation and development of the

Quechuan languages Quechua (, ), also called (, 'people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes. Derived from a common ancestral " Proto-Quechua" ...

. He has also made outstanding contributions to the study of the Aymara, Mochica and Chipaya languages.

Biography

He pursued his first degree at the

National University of San Marcos The National University of San Marcos (, UNMSM) is a public university, public research university located in Lima, the capital of Peru. In the Americas, it is the first officially established (Privilege (legal ethics), privilege by Charles V, ...

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. After graduating, he obtained his master's degree at

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and his Ph.D. degree at the

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. He started his studies by researching the Quechuan variety spoken in his homeland: the

Mantaro Valley The Mantaro Valley, also known as Jauja Valley, is a fluvial inter-Andean valley of Junin region, east of Lima, the capital of Peru. The Mantaro River flows through the fertile valley which produces potatoes, maize, and vegetables among othe ...

region. Engaged by the Peruvian Ministry of Education, he wrote the first grammar and dictionary of Wanka Quechua, both published in 1976. He has fought strongly for preservation and development of Quechua in all of its varieties. In 1994 he published a dictionary of

Southern Quechua Southern Quechua (, ), or simply Quechua (Qichwa or Qhichwa), is the most widely spoken of the major regional groupings of mutually intelligible dialects within the Quechua language family, with about 6.9 million speakers. Besides Guaraní it ...

, proposing a unified orthographic standard for all Quechua of southern Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. This standard has been accepted by many institutions in Peru and is used officially for Quechua in Bolivia, as well as on the Wikipedia Quechua pages. Cerrón-Palomino is currently a professor in linguistics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima.

Works (selection)

* 1976 ''Diccionario quechua Junín-Huanca''. Ministerio de educación del Perú * 1976 ''Gramática quechua Junín-Huanca''. Ministerio de educación del Perú * 1987 Unidad y diferenciación lingüística en el mundo andino. ''Lexis'', 11: 1, pp. 71–010-t. También en López, Luis Enrique (Comp.) ''Pesquisas en lingüística andina''. Lima: Gráfica Bellido, pp. 121–152. * 1987 ''Lingüística Quechua''. Cuzco, Perú: Bartolomé de Las Casas * 1989 Quechua y mochica: lenguas en contacto. ''Lexis'', 13: 1, pp. 47–68. * 1989 ''Lengua y sociedad en el Valle del Mantaro''. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. * 1990 Reconsideración del llamado quechua costeño. ''Revista Andina'', 16: 2, pp. 335–409. * 1991 El Inca Garcilaso o la lealtad idiomática. ''Lexis'', 1.5: 2, pp. 133–178. * 1992 Diversidad y unificación léxica en el mundo andino. En Godenzzi, Juan Carlos (Comp.) ''El quechua en debate: ideología normal y enseñanza''. Cuzco: C.E.R.A. "Bartolomé de Las Casas", pp. 205–235. * 1993 Los fragmentos de Gramática del Inca Garcilaso. ''Lexis'', 17: 2, pp. 219–257. * 1994 ''Quechua sureño, diccionario unificado quechua-castellano, castellano-quechua''. Lima, Biblioteca Nacional del Perú. * 1994 ''Quechumara. Estructuras paralelas del quechua y del aymara''. Lima: CIPA, 42 * 1995 ''La lengua de Naimlap (reconstrucción y obsolescencia del mochica)''. Lima: Fondo editorial de la PUC. * 1996 "El Nebrija indiano". Prólogo a la edición de la ''Grammatica'' de Fray Domingo de Santo Tomás, Cuzco: C.E.R.A. Bartolomé de las Casas. * 1998 El cantar de Inca Yupanqui y la lengua secreta de los incas. ''Revista Andina'', 32, pp. 417–452. * 1999 Tras las huellas del aimara cuzqueño. ''Revista Andina'', 33, pp. 137–161. * 2000 ''Lingüística aimara'' Cuzco: C.E.R.A. Bartolomé de Las Casas. * 2003. ''Castellano Andino. Aspectos sociolingüísticos, pedagógicos y gramaticales''. Lima: PUCP. * 2006 ''El chipaya o la lengua de los hombres del agua''. Lima: PUCP. * 2008 ''Voces del Ande. Ensayos sobre Onomástica Andina''. Lima: PUCP.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cerron-Palomino, Rodolfo Peruvian male writers Linguists from Peru 1940 births Living people People from Huancayo Cornell University alumni Peruvian expatriates in the United States University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni National University of San Marcos alumni Academic staff of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru