A distinguished international group of scholars analyze the concept of word and its applicability in a range of typologically diverse languages. The languages include Amazonian Australian Aboriginal Eskimo Native North American West African Balkan Caucasian and Indo-Pakistani Sign Language. They exhibit a great range of phonological morphological and grammatical characteristics enabling the contributors to refine the definition of a word against this broad linguistic landscape. The book is of interest to scholars of linguistic typology and of morphology.