Subject: new book : anthropological linguistics

desmond c . derbyshire and geoffrey k . pullum ( editors ) handbook of amazonian languages volume 4 1998 . 24 x 17 cm . xii , 517 pages . cloth dm 298 , - / approx . us $ 186 . 00 isbn 3-11 - 014991 - 5 mouton de gruyter * berlin * new york this volume includes grammatical descriptions of wai wai , warekena , a comparative survey of morphosyntactic features of the tupi - guarani languages , and a paper on interclausal reference phenomena in amahuaca . the four volumes of this handbook are devoted to studies of syntactic , morphological and phonological characteristics of the languages of amazonia , many of which have never been described fully in the available literature , and most of which are little known to the general linguistic community . contents of volume 4 preface * map south america * abbreviations * desmond c . derbyshire and geoffrey k . pullum , introduction * part i : grammatical sketches * outline of contents for grammatical sketches * robert e . hawkins , wai wai * alexandra y . aikhenveld , warekena * margarethe w . sparing - chavez , part ii : typological study : amahuaca ( panoan ) * cheryl jensen , part iii : comparative study : tupi - guarani * cumulative index to volumes 1 - 4 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ mouton de gruyter walter de gruyter , inc . postfach 30 34 21 200 saw mill river road d-10728 berlin hawthorne , ny 10532 germany usa fax : + 49 ( 0 ) 30 26005-351 fax : + 1 914 747-1326 email : mouton @ degruyter . de this and further publications can also be ordered via world wide web : http : / / www . degruyter . com
