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 twenty 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.
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