When reading descriptions of Amazonian languages it is common to find a morpheme
labelled frustrative, but although its presence is often remarked upon (cf. Campbell 2012 …

This article investigates the recently recognized concept of associated motion in 66 South
American languages located on the western fringes of the Amazonian basin. In that region …

This book provides a comprehensive typological account of voice syncretism, focusing on
resemblance in formal verbal marking between two or more of the following seven voices …

Evidentiality–a grammatical expression of information source (,)–is often expressed on a
clausal level, and its marking is associated with the verb. In a few languages, a noun phrase …

Within the grammar of the world's languages, knowledge can be expressed in various ways.
We focus on the grammatical expression of four major groups of meanings related to …

Middle markers are characterized by a distribution halfway between grammar and the
lexicon: with some verbs, middle marking encodes valency change, while with others it …

Some languages around the Pacific have multiple possessive classes of alienable
constructions using appositive nouns or classifiers. This pattern differs from the most …

The dissertation is a typological study of participles based on the concept of participle
specifically designed for cross-linguistic comparison. In a few words, participles are defined …

Some linguistic structures found in Amazonian Spanish tend to be associated by and large
with a rural variety spoken by people frequently depicted as indigenous. However, direct …

This is a reference grammar of Enxet Sur, an indigenous language of the Paraguayan Gran
Chaco, and one of six recognized languages in the Enlhet-Enenlhet (EE, or Mascoyan) …