This work contains a comprehensive description of Kwaza, which is an endangered and unclassified indigenous language of Southern Rondônia, Brazil. The Kwaza la

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This is the first book to present Canonical Typology, a framework for comparing constructions and categories across languages. The canonical method takes the cr

This book investigates the existential clause (EC) from a cross-linguistic perspective and within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The prototyp

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