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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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The Oxford Handbook of Polysynthesis
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This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express
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Language complexity has recently attracted considerable attention from linguists of many different persuasions. This volume – a thematic selection of papers fr