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The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology
Linguistic typology identifies both how languages vary and what they all have in common. This Handbook provides a state-of-the art survey of the aims and methods of linguistic typology, and the conclusions we can draw from them.
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Language Contact in Amazonia
This book investigates the contact between Arawak and Tucanoan languages spoken in the Vaupés river basin in northwest Amazonia, which spans Colombia and Brazil.
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The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality
This volume offers a systematic crosslinguistic account of evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based.
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The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea. Manambu belongs to the Ndu language family, and is spoken by about 2,500 people in five villages in East Sepik Province, Ambunti district.
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I Saw the Dog
Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost infinitely varied: a French speaker can't conceive of a world that isn't split into un and une, male and female, while Estonians have only one word for both men and women: tema.
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