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The Amazonian Languages

Alexandra Y Aikhenvald editor R M W Dixon editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:23rd Nov '06

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An overview of one of the richest and most complex linguistic regions in the world, the Amazon Basin.

The Amazon Basin is one of the least-known and most complex linguistic regions in the world. Its 300-plus languages show properties that challenge received ideas about linguistic universals. This book provides an accessible overview of this rich and exciting linguistic area.The Amazon Basin is arguably both one of the least-known and the most complex linguistic regions in the world. It is the home of some 300 languages belonging to around twenty language families, plus more than a dozen genetic isolates, and many of these languages (often incompletely documented and mostly endangered) show properties that constitute exceptions to received ideas about linguistic universals. This book provides an overview in a single volume of this rich and exciting linguistic area. The editors and contributors have sought to make their descriptions as clear and accessible as possible, in order to provide a basis for further research on the structural characteristics of Amazonian languages and their genetic and areal relationships, as well as a point of entry to important cross-linguistic data for the wider constituency of theoretical linguists.

..."a useful, comprehensive linguistic anthology for the Amazonian region" Notes on Linguistics

ISBN: 9780521578936

Dimensions: 228mm x 154mm x 26mm

Weight: 688g

476 pages