Spanish Diversity in the Amazon focusses on Spanish varieties spoken in the Peruvian, Ecuadorean and Colombian Amazon, and this volume is the first of its kind. It introduces studies on theoretical, methodological and descriptive studies on li...Lasīt vairāk
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In this volume, Eladio Mateo Toledo provides a description and analysis of resultatives, end-states, monitoring constructions, ditransitives, causatives, and directional constructions. Although causatives and directionals are explored in Mayan langua...Lasīt vairāk
This volume presents the up-to-date results of investigations into the Asian origins of the only two languages families of North America, Eskaleut and Na-Dene, that are widely acknowledged as having likely genetic links in northern Asia....Lasīt vairāk
This collection of in-depth studies on the structure of relative clauses in various representative languages from Mexico and America Central sheds invaluable light on the formation of Mesoamerica as a linguistic area....Lasīt vairāk
A Grammar of Murui (Bue) by Katarzyna Wojtylak is the first complete description of Murui (Witoto, Huitoto) spoken in Colombia and Peru. It is an important contribution to the study of Witotoan languages and linguistic typology of Northwest Am...Lasīt vairāk
In Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century Bruno Estigarribia and Justin Pinta offer a series of state-of-the-art linguistic studies of Guarani, the only indigenous language of the Americas spoken by a non-indigenous majority....Lasīt vairāk
Vallejos provides a comprehensive account of the grammar of Kukama-Kukamiria, an Amazonian language spoken in Peru. There are several reasons to study and document the language, she says, most urgently because it is highly endangered: most people who...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents insights into laryngeal features. Taking diverse theoretical perspectives, it investigates properties such as tone, non-modal phonation, non-pulmonic production mechanisms, stress, and prosody in several indigenous languages of the...Lasīt vairāk
This volume explores the semantics and pragmatics of Southern Quechua and Ecuadorian Quichua expressions of stance and deixis. This work is the first to study a broad range of stance/deictic phenomena in Quechua and Quichua in-depth....Lasīt vairāk
In this monograph, Capistrįn analyzes constraints on double and triple object sentences following a PO/SO pattern. Alternating constructions and construction splits are also explained. PO selection according to a thematic ranking accounts for the (u...Lasīt vairāk
Matt Coler provides a detailed grammatical description of a heretofore undocumented variety of Aymara spoken in Southern Peru, with focus on phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax....Lasīt vairāk
This is the first volume to focus on reduplication in South America. Most regions and language families of the continent are represented in articles based on recent fieldwork by the authors....Lasīt vairāk
Negation in Arawak Languages presents detailed descriptions of negation constructions in nine Arawak languages (Apurinć, Garifuna, Kurripako, Lokono, Mojeńo Trinitario, Nanti, Paresi, Tariana, and Wauja), and an overview of negation in this major la...Lasīt vairāk
In Benasnķ I Remember, Josh Holden presents autobiographical narratives about cultural change from twelve Dene Suiné elders in Saskatchewan, Canada. The Dene texts are accompanied by an innovative interlinear translation that distinguishes morpholo...Lasīt vairāk
Thomas and Doris (both linguistics, U. of Oregon) describe a language that is spoken by about 3,100 people in the central lowland plains of Venezuela and is a member of the Venezuelan Carib language family. Among their topics are the language and its...Lasīt vairāk
This book surveys multi-verb constructions in multiple languages from the Americas, showing a very rich tapestry of typologically unusual constructions, including serial verbs, auxiliaries, co-verbs, phasal verbs. Where possible, a diachronic perspe...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a comprehensive view of the morphology, syntax, and semantics of applicatives in Salish, a language family of northwestern North America. Applicative constructions, found in many polysynthetic languages, cast a semantically periphera...Lasīt vairāk
In this volume an international group of leading specialists guide us through different aspects of the study of Amerindian languages and societies. These all lie at the heart of the extensive and multi-facetted work of Willem Adelaar, who is the fore...Lasīt vairāk
