The Amazonian languages
By: edited by R.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald.
Contributors: Dixon, Robert M. W.; Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I︠U︡.
Edition: Digitally printed 1st pbk. version.
Series: Cambridge language surveys
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780521578936; 9780521570213
Subjects: Indians of South America -- Amazon River Region -- Languages.
Description: "The Amazon Basin is arguably both the least-known and the most complex linguistic region in the world today. It is the home of some 300 languages belonging to around 20 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 is the first to provide 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.