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Web of Knowledge - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Web of Knowledge

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Serial Verbs - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Serial Verbs

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions.

Phonological Word and Grammatical Word - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Phonological Word and Grammatical Word

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This volume examines the concept of 'word' in its many guises and across many languages.

Commands - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Commands

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common.

Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This volume offers a thorough, systematic, and crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based.

Serial Verbs - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Serial Verbs

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This book provides an in-depth typological account of the forms, functions, and histories of serial verb constructions.

How Gender Shapes the World - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

How Gender Shapes the World

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender.

Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common.

Commands - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Commands

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This book focuses on the form and the function of commands--directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders--from a typological perspective.

Grammar of Knowledge - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Grammar of Knowledge

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

How Gender Shapes the World - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

How Gender Shapes the World

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender.

Possession and Ownership - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Possession and Ownership

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Possession and ownership brings together linguists and anthropologists in a series of cross-linguistic explorations of expressions used to denote possession and ownership, concepts central to most if not all the varied cultures and ideologies of .

Languages of the Amazon - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Languages of the Amazon

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction.

Art of Grammar - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Art of Grammar

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar.

Art of Grammar - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Art of Grammar

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar.

Grammar of Knowledge - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Grammar of Knowledge

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Possession and Ownership - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Possession and Ownership

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

The Languages Of The Amazon - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

The Languages Of The Amazon

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction.

Imperatives And Commands - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Imperatives And Commands

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This is the first cross-linguistic study of imperatives, and commands of other kinds, across the world's languages.

Language Contact in Amazonia - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Language Contact in Amazonia

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble one another.

GRAMMARS IN CONTACT: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY; ED. BY ALEXANDRA Y. AIKHENVALD. - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

GRAMMARS IN CONTACT: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY; ED. BY ALEXANDRA Y. AIKHENVALD.

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

The present volume examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation.

Grammars in Contact - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Grammars in Contact

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

The present volume examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation.

Serial Verb Constructions - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Serial Verb Constructions

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs.

Grammars in Contact - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Grammars in Contact

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

The present volume examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation.

A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions) - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions)

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

The speakers of tariana, an endangered arawak language from the northwest amazonian jungle, traditionally marry someone speaking a different language; therefore, most are fluent in five or six languages.

Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble one another.

Evidentiality - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Evidentiality

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

In a number of languages, scattered across the world, every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based--whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from somebody els.

Serial verb constructions - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Serial verb constructions

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs.

Serial Verb Constructions - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Serial Verb Constructions

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs.

Grammars in contact - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Grammars in contact

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

The present volume examines the ways in which linguistic traits may change in a contact situation.

SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY; ED. BY ALEXANDRA Y. AIKHENVALD. - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTIONS: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY; ED. BY ALEXANDRA Y. AIKHENVALD.

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs.

Serial verb constructions - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Serial verb constructions

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This volume of new work explores the forms and functions of serial verbs.

EVIDENTIALITY. - ALEXANDRA Y. AIKHENVALD

EVIDENTIALITY.

ALEXANDRA Y. AIKHENVALD

In a number of languages, scattered across the world, every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based--whether the speaker saw it, or heard it, or inferred it from indirect evidence, or learnt it from somebody els.

Evidentiality - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Evidentiality

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Classifiers - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Classifiers

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Almost all languages have some grammatical means for categorizing nouns.

A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions) - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions)

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

The speakers of tariana, an endangered arawak language from the northwest amazonian jungle, traditionally marry someone speaking a different language; therefore, most are fluent in five or six languages.

Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble one another.

Non-Canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects (Typological Studies in Language) - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Non-Canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects (Typological Studies in Language)

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every object.

Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

This book considers how and why forms and meanings of different languages at different times may resemble one another.

Non-canonical marking of subjects and objects - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Non-canonical marking of subjects and objects

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every object.

Non-Canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects (Typological Studies in Language) - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Non-Canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects (Typological Studies in Language)

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every object.

Classifiers - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Classifiers

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Almost all languages have some grammatical means for categorizing nouns.