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Argument Marking Patterns in South American Languages

出版	LOT, Netherlands Graduate School, 2014
ISBN	946093000X9789460930003
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HxHYoAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The South American continent off ers many exciting opportunities for scholars concerned with the study of human language. Through a boom in the description of the indigenous languages of South America that started at the end of the last century, two crucial aspects of these languages are slowly becoming apparent in current academic research. First, South American languages are incredibly diverse, both in terms of the diff erent linguistic structures that they display and the sheer number of di fferent genealogical units into which they can be demonstrably classifi0ed. Yet in the face of this incredible typological and phylogenetic diversity, a second crucial aspect of South American languages emerges: there are a large number of recurrent phonological and grammatical patterns found in South America that transcend attested language families and whose distributions are too robust to be attributed to mere chance. Finding a plausible explanation for the recurrent distribution of a number of linguistic structures amidst overarching typological and phylogenetic diversity is what can be called the South American puzzle.