This volume focuses on word formation processes in smaller and so far underrepresented indigenous languages of South America. The data for the analyses have bee

Fills a gap in cross-linguistic research by being the first systematic survey of the word-formation of the world's languages. Data from fifty-five world languag

Lowland South American languages have been among the least studied ln the world. Consequently, their previous contribution to linguistic theory and language uni

This handbook provides the first broadly comprehensive, typologically-informed descriptive overview of the languages of Greater Amazonia. Organized by genealogi

Reviews and debates the latest theoretical approaches to evaluative morphology