Endangered Languages
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Endangered Languages

  1. 306 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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Endangered Languages

About this book

Peter K. Austin / Andrew Simpson: Introduction; Nicholas Evans: Warramurrungunji undone: Australian languages in the 51st Millenium; Knut J. Olawsky: Obvious OVS in Urarina syntax; Larry M. Hyman / Imelda Udoh: Length harmony in Leggbó: a counter-universal?; Nora England: The influence of Mayan-speaking linguists on the state of Mayan linguistics; Pamela Munro: Oblique subjects in Garifuna; Marina Chumakina / Anna Kibort / Greville G. Corbett: Determining a language's feature inventory: person in Archi; Friederike Lüpke: Vanishing voice – the morphologically zero-coded passive of Jalonke; Anju Saxena: The ergative in Kinnauri narratives; John Hajek: Sound systems of the Asia-Pacific: some basic typological observations; Martina Faller: The Cusco Quechua Reportative evidential and rhetorical relations; Emmon Bach: Deixis in Northern Wakashan: recovering lost forms; Roberto Zavala: Inversion and obviation in Mesoamerica

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Peter K. Austin and Andrew Simpson: Introduction
  4. Nicholas Evans: Warramurrungunji undone: Australian languages in the 51st Millennium
  5. Knut J. Olawsky: ObViouS OVS in Urarina syntax
  6. Larry M. Hyman and Imelda Udoh: Length harmony in Leggbó: a counter-universal?
  7. Nora C. England: The influence of Mayan-speaking linguists on the state of Mayan linguistics
  8. Pamela Munro: Oblique subjects in Garifuna
  9. Marina Chumakina, Anna Kibort and Greville G. Corbett: Determining a language’s feature inventory: person in Archi
  10. Friederike Lüpke: Vanishing voice – the morphologically zero-coded passive of Jalonke
  11. Anju Saxena: Contrastive focus in Kinnauri narratives
  12. John Hajek: Sound systems of the Asia-Pacific: some basic typological observations
  13. Martina Faller: The Cusco Quechua Reportative evidential and rhetorical relations
  14. Emmon Bach: Deixis in Northern Wakashan: recovering lost forms
  15. Roberto Zavala: Inversion and obviation in Mesoamerica