Author: 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 i...

"Highly recommended.... extremely useful." Linguist List In some languages, every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence o...

This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. Several thousand distinct languages are currently sp...

Almost all languages have some grammatical means for the linguistic categorization of nouns. Well-known systems such as the lexical numeral classif...

This book explores the range of noun categorization devices found in the languages of the world, from the extensive systems of numeral classifiers ...

This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for family life, patterns of socialization, distribution...

This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference grammar. Several thousand distinct languages are currently sp...

This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating i...

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

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

In some languages every statement must contain a specification of the type of evidence on which it is based: for example, whether the speaker saw i...

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