Anthropogenic activity is changing Earth's climate and ecosystems in ways that are
potentially dangerous and disruptive to humans. Greenhouse gas concentrations in the …

The range of mirative meanings across the world's languages subsumes sudden discovery,
surprise, and unprepared mind of the speaker (and also the audience or the main character …

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

This book introduces the principles and practice of writing a comprehensive reference
grammar. Several thousand distinct languages are currently spoken across the globe, each …

Every language has a mechanism for expressing possession, within a noun phrase and
within a clause. Some languages have a dedicated, possessive, construction. Others …

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 …

Every language has a way of speaking about how one knows what one says, and what one
thinks about what one knows. In any language, there are ways of phrasing inferences …

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 …

In this book, D. Robert Ladd focuses on problems with the one-dimensional idealization of
language on which much linguistic theory is based. Strings of sequentially-ordered elements …

Names: Coronel-Molina, Seraf ín M., author.| McCarty, TL, author. Title: Indigenous
language revitalization in the Americas/by Seraf ín M. Coronel-Molina and Teresa L …