A one-stop reference for linguists to find topics that come up the most frequently in the study of North American languages. Empirically-driven chapters provide fundamental knowledge needed to participate in contemporary theoretical discussions of these languages, making this handbook is an indispensable resource for linguistics scholars.

Table of Contents. Editor's note Daniel Siddiqi. About the contributors. Part 1 Common Phenomena in North American Languages. Chapter 1: Phonological inventories. Keren Rice. Chapter 2: Segmental processes. Heather Newell & Andréia de Souza. Chapter 3: Stress, tone, and pitch accent. Eugene Buckley. Chapter 4: Prosodic morphology and reduplication. Suzanne Urbanczyk. Chapter 5: The expanded NP: Number, possessors, gender, animacy, and classifiers. Carrie Gillon. Chapter 6: Morphosyntactic strategies in spatial description. Carolyn O'Meara & Gabriela Pérez Báez. Chapter 7: Agreement and related phenomena in North American Languages. Richard Compton. Chapter 8: Inverse systems and person hierarchy effects. Heather Bliss, Elizabeth Ritter, & Martina Wiltschko. Chapter 9: Switch-reference in American languages: A synthetic overview. Mark Baker & Livia Carmargo Souza. Chapter 10: Ergativity and ergativity splits. Bettina Spreng. Chapter 11: Noun incorporation and polysynthesis. Michael Barrie & Éric Mathieu. Chapter 12: Antipassives. Kumiko Murasugi. Chapter 13: Evidentials and modals. Marianne Huijsmans & Sarah E. Murray. Chapter 14: Quantification. Lisa Matthewson & Henry Davis. Part 2 Common Language Families of North America. Chapter 15: Otomanguean languages. Brook Danielle Lillehaugen. Chapter 16: Mayan languages. Lauren Clemens. Chapter 17: Muskogean languages. George Aaron Broadwell. Chapter 18: Iroquoian languages. Hiroto Uchihara & Michael Barrie. Chapter 19: Salish languages. Henry Davis. Chapter 20: Na-Dene languages. Alessandro Jaker, Nicholas Welch, & Keren Rice. Chapter 21: Algonquian languages. Will Oxford. Chapter 22: Eskimo-Aleut languages. Alana Johns. Chapter 23: Evaluating proposals for long-distance genetic relationships: Uto-Aztecan vs. Plateau Penutian. Jason D. Haugen. Chapter 24: Areal linguistics and linguistic areas in California. Jane H. Hill