Hixkaryana and linguistic typology
[Dallas]: Summer Institute of Linguistics; [Arlington] : University of Texas at Arlington, 1985. First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, 262, [4]; printed from typescript; near fine copy in original printed wrappers. Issued as no. 76 in the publisher's Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics series. Hixkaryana is one of the Carib languages spoken by just over 600 people on the Nhamunda River, a tributary of the Amazon in Brazil. Derbyshire, a prominent linguist specializing in the Carib languages, "is best known for his work on Hixkaryana, known for its object–verb–subject word order. Derbyshire's study of the language (as a linguist with the Summer Institute of Linguistics) resulted in the first description in the linguistics literature of a language with this word order as its default" (Wikipedia). Item #72749
ISBN: 9780883120828
Price: $40.00
