The book is the first large-scale typological study of participles, based on data from more
than 100 languages. Its main aim is to model the diversity of non-finite verb forms involved in …

The dissertation is a typological study of participles based on the concept of participle
specifically designed for cross-linguistic comparison. In a few words, participles are defined …

The linguistic diversity of the South American continent is quite impressive. There are 576
indigenous languages attested (well enough documented to be classified family-wise), of …

This article proposes that the divergent pattern of verb argument marking found in object
focus clauses in the Tuparian branch of the Tupian family comes from the reanalysis of an …

The article deals with attributive modification in South American languages. It focuses on
descriptive terms that denote properties. First of all, it is observed that attributive modification …

El presente artículo ofrece una propuesta de clasificación de las variedades lingüísticas
pertenecientes a la familia lingüística pano habladas en la provincia del Purús (región …

The papers in this volume describe the forms and functions of deverbal nominalizations in a
selection of indigenous languages of the northwest Amazon basin, with an eye to the wider …

Tupinambá is the first attested language of the Tupí-Guaraní family and it has a story that
one can follow from its first attestation to the present through its descendants. Making use of …

Assessing the internal coherence and constituency of language families often centers either
around comparing certain form-meaning correspondences, or around identifying the …

This study examines the interaction of contrastive focus-marking with nominalization in
bisected contrastive focus constructions of Alto Perené, a Kampa Arawak language of Peru …