Gildea Books
Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Linguistics And Grammaticalization
By Spike Gildea, Spike, Gildea
Areal Typology And Grammaticalization : The Emergence Of New Verbal Morphology In An Obsolescent Language / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- Florescence As A Force In Grammaticalization / Wallace Chafe -...
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The Longest Fight: In The Ring With Joe Gans, Boxing'S First African American Champion
By William, William Gildea, Gildea
Many people came to Goldfield, Nevada, America’s last gold-rush town, to seek their fortune. However, on a searing summer day in September 1906, they came not to strike it rich but to watch what wo...
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Ergativity In Amazonia
By Spike Gildea, Spike, Gildea, Spike Gildea (Ed.), Francesc Queixalós (Ed.)
This volume presents a typological/theoretical introduction plus eight papers about ergative alignment in 16 Amazonian languages. All are written by linguists with years of fieldwork and comparativ...
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