The so-called Makú or Makú-Puinavean language family of the Northwest Amazon has long
been assumed to include the languages Hup, Yuhup, Dâw, and Nadëb (the “Naduhupan” …

A widespread assumption in the language contact literature is that affixes are never
borrowed directly, but only indirectly, that is, as part of complex loanwords. From such …

In A Grammar of Murui (Bue), Katarzyna Wojtylak provides the first complete description of
Murui, an endangered Witotoan language, spoken by the Murui-Muina (Witoto) people from …

The Upper Rio Negro regional social system is made up of more than 30 languages
belonging to six linguistic families. This results from socio-historical processes stretching …

The Amazon basin is one of the most linguistically diverse regions on earth. With some 300
indigenous languages corresponding to over fifty distinct lineages, the diversity of language …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of possessive inflection in the three known
Zamucoan languages: Ayoreo and Chamacoco–still spoken in the Chaco area between …

This volume explores the multiple aspects of morphological complexity, investigating
primarily whether certain aspects of morphology can be considered more complex than …

The present paper explores the intersection between typological rarities, matter borrowing
and pattern borrowing in the Gran Chaco of South America. In this region the only two living …

The Amazon Basin–the world's largest river system–is home to an extremely high linguistic
diversity (rivaled only by the island of New Guinea). It comprises around 350 extant …

Reflecting on how many people contributed to the realisation of this project, it seems wrong
to see just a single author on the front page of this book. While I obviously carry full …