The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology - Paperback

Aikhenvald, Alexandra: - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Australian Laureate Fellow, Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre James Cook University, Australia. She is an expert on languages and cultures of Amazonia and the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, in addition to linguistic typology, general linguistics and several other areas. Recipient of Humboldt Researcgh Award. Major publications include A grammar of Tariana (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and, with Oxford University Press, Classifiers: a typology of noun categorization devices (2000), Language contact in Amazonia (2002), Evidentiality (2004), The Manambu language from East Sepik, Papua New Guinea, (2008), Imperatives and commands (2010), Languages of the Amazon (2012), The Art of Grammar (2015) and How gender shapes the world (forthcoming 2016); the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.: - Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Australian Laureate Fellow, Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University, North Queensland. She is an expert on languages and cultures of Amazonia and the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, in addition to linguistic typology, general linguistics and several other areas.Dixon, R. M. W.: - R. M. W. Dixon is Professor and Deputy Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre at James Cook University, North Queensland and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published grammars of a number of Australian languages.