Word and the Americanist perspective

Even though recently appeared reference grammars of lesser-known languages usually do pay attention to issues to do with wordhood, studies of the theoretical and typological import of wordhoodrelated questions in indigenous languages of the Americas are not numerous. This publication aims to address the challenges posed by individual phenomena found in the Americas to the received views of wordhood. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-014-9242-z Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-99717 Accepted Version Originally published at: Van Gijn, Rik; Zúñiga, Fernando (2014). Word and the Americanist perspective. Morphology, 24(3):135160. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-014-9242-z Morphology (2014) 24:135–160 DOI 10.1007/s11525-014-9242-z Word and the Americanist perspective Rik van Gijn · Fernando Zúñiga Received: 19 March 2014 / Accepted: 1 October 2014 / Published online: 14 October 2014 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 Abstract Even though recently appeared reference grammars of lesser-known languages usually do pay attention to issues to do with wordhood, studies of the theoretical and typological import of wordhood-related questions in indigenous languages of the Americas are not numerous. This publication aims to address the challenges posed by individual phenomena found in the Americas to the received views of wordhood.Even though recently appeared reference grammars of lesser-known languages usually do pay attention to issues to do with wordhood, studies of the theoretical and typological import of wordhood-related questions in indigenous languages of the Americas are not numerous. This publication aims to address the challenges posed by individual phenomena found in the Americas to the received views of wordhood.