Handbook of Amazonian Languages / HANDBOOK AMAZONIAN LANGUAGES

Frontmatter -- Introduction: Desmond C. Derbyshire and Geoffrey K. Pullum -- Introduction -- Part I: Grammatical Sketches -- Outline of contents for grammatical sketches -- Macushi: Miriam Abbott -- Introduction -- Syntax of the Sentence or Clause -- Syntax Of Phrase Types -- Particles -- Phonology -- Ideophones -- References -- Appendix -- Paumarí: Shirley Chapman and Desmond C. Derbyshire -- Introduction -- Syntax Of The Sentence Or Clause -- Syntax of Phrase Types -- Particles -- Phonology -- Ideophones -- References -- Part II: Maipuran (Arawakan) Classification -- A Classification of Maipuran (Arawakan) Languages Based on Shared Lexical Retentions -- 0 Introduction -- 1 An overview of the Arawakan language family -- 2 Previous comparative studies of Maipuran -- 3 Aspects of Maipuran grammatical structure -- 4 Noun classifiers -- 5 Preliminary reconstructions and cognate sets -- 6 Reconstructed phonemes and reflexes -- 7 Conclusions -- References -- Cumulative Index to Volumes 1-3 / Barker, Chris / Pullum, Geoffrey K. -- Backmatter