oxford gu ide s to the world ’s language s
g e n e r a l e d i t o r s
Adam Ledgeway, University of Cambridge, and Martin Maiden, University of Oxford
a d v i s o r y e d i t o r s
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, James Cook University,
Edith Aldridge, University of Washington,
Stephen R. Anderson, Yale University,
Bernard Comrie, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Jan Terje Faarlund, University of Oslo,
Alice Harris, University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Bernd Heine, University of Cologne,
Paul Hopper, Carnegie-Mellon University,
Geoffrey Khan, University of Cambridge,
Lutz Marten, SOAS, London,
Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Irina Nikolaeva, SOAS, London,
Chris Reintges, CNRS, Paris,
Masayoshi Shibatani, Rice University,
David Willis, University of Cambridge
p u b l i s h e d
The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages
Edited by Claire Bowern
The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages
Edited by Adam Ledgeway and Martin Maiden
The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Alexander Savelyev
The Oxford Guide to the Uralic Languages
Edited by Marianne Bakró-Nagy, Johanna Laakso, and Elena Skribnik
i n p r e p a r a t i o n
The Oxford Guide to the Afroasiatic Languages
Edited by Sabrina Bendjaballah and Chris Reintges
The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa
Edited by Friederike Lu¨pke
The Oxford Guide to the Bantu Languages
Edited by Ellen Hurst, Nancy Kula, Lutz Marten, and Jochen Zeller
The Oxford Guide to the Languages of the Central Andes
Edited by Matthias Urban
The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia
Edited by Alexander Adelaar and Antoinette Schapper
The Oxford Guide to the Papuan Languages
Edited by Nicholas Evans and Sebastian Fedden
The Oxford Guide to the Slavonic Languages
Edited by Jan Fellerer and Neil Bermel
The Oxford Guide to the Tibeto-Burman Languages
Edited by Kristine Hildebrandt, Yankee Modi, David Peterson, and Hiroyuki Suzuki