Recent scholarship has confirmed earlier observations that nominalization plays a crucial role in the formation of complex constructions in the world’s langua

In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the wor

In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversi

Patterns of relative clause formation tend to vary according to the typological properties of a language. Highly polysynthetic languages tend to have fully nomi

The chapters in this volume address current topics in the morphology, syntax, and semantics of nominalizations, drawing on a range of typologically and geograph