Subordination in native South American languages

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Label

Subordination in native South American languages

Statement of responsibility

edited by Rik van Gijn, Katharina Haude, Pieter Muysken

Contributor

• Haude, Katharina
• Haude, Katharina
• Muysken, Pieter
• Gijn, Rik van
• Gijn, Rik van

Subject

• Indians of South America -- Languages
• Language and languages -- Variation
• South America -- Languages

Language

eng

Summary

In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly different from each other. This volume intends to provide a taste of the linguistic diversity found in South America within the area of clause subordination. The potential variety in the strategies that languages can use to encode subordinate events is enormous, yet there are clearly dominant pattern

Member of

• Typological studies in language, 97
• Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

498

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

PM5008

LC item number

.S83 2011eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography