Ergativity in Amazonia PDF book is popular Language Arts & Disciplines book written by Spike Gildea. The book was released by John Benjamins Publishing on 2010 with total hardcover pages 329. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Ergativity in Amazonia by Spike Gildea in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
This volume presents a typological/theoretical introduction plus eight papers about ergative alignment in 16 Amazonian languages. All are written by linguists w
Recent scholarship has confirmed earlier observations that nominalization plays a crucial role in the formation of complex constructions in the world’s langua
This volume presents fifteen original papers dealing with various aspects of causative constructions ranging from morphology to semantics with emphasis on langu
Spoken on Kurima, a miniscule island in the Miyakojima municipality in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, Kurima-Miyako is a South Ryukyuan topolect, a regional variant
This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes converge and differ across languages and language areas. Chapters systemically explore these
