When reading descriptions of Amazonian languages it is common to find a morpheme
labelled frustrative, but although its presence is often remarked upon (cf. Campbell 2012 …

The only textbook of its kind, An Introduction to the Languages of the World is designed to
introduce beginning linguistics students, who now typically start their study with little …

The syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language whose strongest cross-
linguistic patterns are often explained in terms of a universal preference for the CV structure …

This study provides a systematic overview of articles and article systems in the world's
languages using a sample of 104 languages. Articles can be classified into 10 types …

The goal of this chapter is to provide some background information on evidentiality and
clause-typing that will allow us to better understand the synchronic and diachronic analysis …

This paper presents a reconstruction of Proto-Tukanoan consonants and the classification of
the family based on shared phonological innovations. The proposed reconstruction …

Northwestern Amazonia is home to a great degree of linguistic diversity, and the human
societies in that region are part of complex networks of interaction that predate the arrival of …

Indexing the gender of the speaker or the addressee within any type of sentence is often
considered as sociolinguistic variation rather than as a gender-exclusive rule. This paper …

The South American continent offers many exciting opportunities for scholars concerned
with the study of human language. Through a boom in the description of the indigenous …

This volume explores the grammatical properties of body-part expressions across a range of
languages and language families in the Americas, including Arawakan, Eastern Tukano …