The Guaporé-Mamoré region is one of the world's linguistically most diverse regions, with
over 50 languages representing eight different stocks and 11 genetic isolates. In spite of the …

Understanding Phonology, Fourth Edition provides a clear, accessible and broad
introduction to Phonology. Introducing basic concepts, it provides a comprehensive account …

Ethnobotanists use a variety of interview techniques to collect ethnobotanical data. Drawing
upon the results from a quantitative ethnobotanical study in five Yuracaré and Trinitario …

This dissertation deals with the structure of the Noun Phrase (henceforth: NP) in a sample of
55 indigenous languages of South America. This chapter gives a concise introduction to the …

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 …

This study is concerned with a cross-linguistic comparison of requests for reconfirmation
(RfRCs) in Yurakaré, German, and Low German mundane spoken conversations. We focus …

This investigation offers an analysis of crosslinguistic variation in the expression of clausal
negative concomitance (eg 'he slept without using a pillow') in a sample of 65 languages …

Chibchan has been labelled as “by all means one of the most intriguing language groups in
the Americas”(Adelaar 2007: 11), and for western researchers, this appears to be …

Switch reference systems occur in a number of languages spoken in a contiguous area in
western South America, across language families, and even across macro culture areas …

Peu d'attention a été porté jusqu'à présent aux déictiques de manière, tels lat. sic, fr. ainsi,
all. so, etc., que ce soit dans la description de langues particulières ou dans les études …