The Amazonian Languages

Name: The Amazonian Languages
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521570213
Price: 33800 KES
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ISBN: 9780521570213

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Language Surveys

ISBN-10 0521570212

ISBN-13 9780521570213

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 23rd, 1999

Print length 476 Pages

Weight 890 grams

Dimensions 23.70 x 16.00 x 3.50 cms

Product Classification: Mexico and Central America South America South American and Caribbean indigenous languages Historical & comparative linguistics Historical and comparative linguistics

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The Amazon Basin is one of the least-known and most complex linguistic regions in the world. Its 300-plus languages show properties that challenge received ideas about linguistic universals. This book provides an accessible overview of this rich and exciting linguistic area.

The Amazon Basin is arguably both one of the least-known and the most complex linguistic regions in the world. It is the home of some 300 languages belonging to around twenty language families, plus more than a dozen genetic isolates, and many of these languages (often incompletely documented and mostly endangered) show properties that constitute exceptions to received ideas about linguistic universals. This book provides an overview in a single volume of this rich and exciting linguistic area. The editors and contributors have sought to make their descriptions as clear and accessible as possible, in order to provide a basis for further research on the structural characteristics of Amazonian languages and their genetic and areal relationships, as well as a point of entry to important cross-linguistic data for the wider constituency of theoretical linguists.

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