A Grammar of Kisi
A Grammar of Kisi

Author: G. Tucker Childs

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-07-22

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 3110810883

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The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.

The Morphology and Phonology of Exponence
The Morphology and Phonology of Exponence

Author: Jochen Trommer

Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)

Published: 2012-09-27

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 0199573735

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This book addresses the common problems, questions, and solutions of exponence, which concern the mapping of morphosyntactic structure to phonological representations. Leading specialists formulate a coherent research programme for exponence, integrating the central insights of the last decades and providing challenges for the future.

Dictionary of Portuguese Loanwords in the Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa
Dictionary of Portuguese Loanwords in the Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: Sergio Baldi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-10-16

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 9004680780

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The main purpose of this dictionary is twofold. On the one hand, it provides the scholar of African studies with a tool to identify the possible Portuguese origin of terms present in African languages and, on the other, it offers those who are interested in Portuguese culture an overview of the presence of its lexicon in African languages. No doubt the Portuguese were among the first Europeans to explore the world outside of Europe, and as such they were also the first to introduce that world to European concepts and words.This book is the result of a long and detailed work on texts in African languages, as also shown by the rich bibliography in the dictionary.

The Emergence of Distinctive Features
The Emergence of Distinctive Features

Author: Jeff Mielke

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008-03-13

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 0199207917

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"The Emergence of Distinctive Features will be of essential interest to phonologists and typologists, as well as to syntacticians, cognitive scientists, and scholars outside linguistics interested in the nature of language and its acquisition."--BOOK JACKET.

Animacy and Inflectional Morphology across Languages
Animacy and Inflectional Morphology across Languages

Author: Ekaitz Santazilia

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-11-14

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 900451306X

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How relevant is the distinction between living and non-living entities in the grammar of languages? This first typological comprehensive study of animacy will immerse you into the realm of this category, its theoretical implications and pervasive effects on inflectional morphology.

Introducing Language Typology
Introducing Language Typology

Author: Edith A. Moravcsik

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0521193400

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This textbook provides an introduction to language typology which assumes minimal prior knowledge of linguistics.

A Myriad of Tongues
A Myriad of Tongues

Author: Caleb Everett

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2023-09-19

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0674976584

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"A guide to how languages around the world differ from one another far more than we realize and point to fundamental differences in how people conceive of everything from time to color to smell"--