Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino

Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino

Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino (* in Huancayo, Peru) is a Peruvian linguist who has crucially contributed to the investigation and development of the Quechua language. He has also made outstanding contributions to the study of the Aymara, Mochica and Chipaya languages.He pursued his Doctoral Degree at the National University of San Marcos in Lima. After graduating, he obtained his Master’s degree at Cornell University and his Ph.D. degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He started his studies by researching the Quechua variety spoken in his homeland: the Mantaro Valley region. Engaged by the Peruvian Ministry of Education, he wrote the first dictionary of the Wanka Quechua, published in 1976. He fought strongly for preservation and development of the Quechua language and all of its varieties. In 1994 he published a dictionary of Southern Quechua, 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.Cerrón is currently a Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru in Lima.

Works (selection)

* 1976 "Diccionario Quechua de Junín-Huanca- Castellano y vice versa". 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.