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
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