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Language Classification
How are relationships established between the world's languages? This is one of the most topical and most controversial questions in contemporary linguistics. The central aims of …
Grammar from the Human Perspective
The papers of this volume investigate how grammar codes the subjective viewpoint of human language users, that is, how grammar reflects human conceptualization. Some of the …
Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages
The endangered languages crisis is widely acknowledged among scholars who deal with languages and indigenous peoples as one of the most pressing problems facing humanity, posing …
Historical Linguistics
Lyle Campbell presents an accessible, hands-on introduction to historical linguistics - one that does not just talk about the topics, but through practical exercises and examples …
Pipil Language of El Salvador
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 …
American Indian Languages
Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland, and from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego; they include the southernmost language of the world (Yaghan) and some of …
New Zealand English
New Zealand English - at just 150 years old - is one of the newest varieties of English, and is unique in that its full history and development are documented in extensive …
Cataloguing the World's Endangered Languages
Cataloguing the World's Endangered Languages brings together the results of the extensive and influential Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) project.Based on the findings …
Life of Language
TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics …
Language Isolates
Language Isolates explores this fascinating group of languages that surprisingly comprise a third of the world's languages. Individual chapters written by experts on these …
Linguist on the Loose
Lyle Campbell's linguistic fieldwork has taken him to numerous countries, sometimes in challenging circumstances. It has led to exciting discoveries including a new language in …
Nivacle Grammar
This book offers an extensive description of Nivacle, an indigenous language spoken in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina and Paraguay. Nivacle's phonology, morphology, and syntax …