Chapter 5 Linguistic areas, bottom-up or top-down? The case of the Guaporé-Mamoré

• Main Author: Muysken, Pieter (auth)
• Other Authors: Hammarström, Harald (auth), Birchall, Joshua (auth), van Gijn, Rick (auth), Krasnoukhova, Olga (auth), Müller, Neele (auth), Comrie, Bernard (Editor), Golluscio, Lucía (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2014
• Subjects: Language; linguistics; Language Contact; Language Change; Linguistic Areas; Linguistic Typology; Language Documentation; Digital Archives; Language Maintenance; Spoken and Written Language
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

In this paper we will take data from four areas of grammatical structure: argument marking (coded by Birchall), subordination (coded by Van Gijn), the noun phrase (coded by Krasnoukhova), and tame marking (tense/aspect/mood/evidentiality, coded by Müller). These data are compared for 22 lan-guages,...