Derbyshire Desmond C., - Handbook of Amazonian Languages, Tom I - III

Derbyshire Desmond C., - Handbook of Amazonian Languages, Tom I - III - Desmond C. Derbyshire

Tom I - 640 s. Tom II - 474 s. Tom III - 516 s. The Handbook of Amazonian Languages is a multi-volume work bringing together a body of descriptive material, particulary syntactic description, on the indrigenous languages of Amazonia. In our introduction to vomume I we urged the view that there is a pressing need for the publication of such material. Amazonia is still largely unexplotared territory for syntacticians. For most amazonian languages,grammatical data are hardly available to linguists at all, and althought slightly more has been published on morphological and phonological topics than on syntax, there remains much to be done before general linguists have any chance of being able to represent Amazonian languages in their samples when doing comparative surveys, or when proposing universal typological generlizations, or when testing hypotheses that make cross-linguistic predictions.