A comprehensive reference grammar of Tariana, an endangered Arawak language from the northwest Amazonian jungle.

This work is a reference grammar of Hup, a member of the Nadahup family (also known as Makú or Vaupés-Japura), which is spoken in the fascinatingly multilingu

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This book presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items ge