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  • Subordination in Native South American Languagesby Rik van Gijn; Katharina Haude; Pieter Muysken

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 149.00

    In terms of its linguistic and cultural make-up, the continent of South America provides linguists and anthropologists with a complex puzzle of language diversity. The continent teems with small language families and isolates, and even languages spoken in adjacent areas can be typologically vastly different from each other. This volume intends to provide... more...

  • Words of the Huronby John L. Steckley

    Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2007; US$ 42.95

    Words of the Huron is an investigation into seventeenth-century Huron culture through a kind of linguistic archaeology of a language that died midway through the twentieth century. John L. Steckley explores a range of topics, including: the construction of longhouses and wooden armour; the use of words for trees in village names; the social anthropological... more...

  • California Indian Languagesby Victor Golla

    University of California Press 2011; US$ 90.00

    Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California?s... more...

  • Case-Marking in Contactby Felicity Meakins

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 158.00

    Until recently, mixed languages were considered an oddity of contact linguistics, with debates about whether or not they actually existed stifling much descriptive work or discussion of their origins. These debates have shifted from questioning their existence to a focus on their formation, and their social and structural features. This book aims to... more...

  • Upper Necaxa Totonac Dictionaryby David Beck

    De Gruyter 2011; US$ 363.00

    The Upper Necaxa Totonac Dictionary documents a previously undescribed Totonac-Tepehua language of Mexico. Comprising 9,000 entries, it includes part-of-speech information, phonetic transcriptions, grammatical notes, literal morpheme-by-morpheme glosses, illustrative sentences, and cross-references to derived forms, as well as a short grammatical sketch... more...

  • A Descriptive Grammar of Ket (Yenisei-Ostyak)by Stefan Georg

    BRILL 2007; US$ 167.00

    Linguists and specialists are familiar with the name Ket, which designates a small ethnic group on the Yenisei and their language. Ket is a severely endangered language with today less than 500 native speakers. Together with Yugh, Kott, Arin, Assan and Pumpokol, it forms the Yeniseic family of languages, which has no known linguistic relatives. more...

  • The Indigenous Languages of South Americaby Lyle Campbell; Verónica Grondona

    De Gruyter 2012; US$ 350.00

    The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of language families and isolates), South American languages contribute new findings in most areas of linguistics. Though formerly one of... more...

  • The Defective Copy Theory of Movementby Nélia Alexandre

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 158.00

    Within the framework of Chomsky?s Principles and Parameters Theory and the Minimalist Program, this work presents a detailed discussion of the different types of wh-question formation and relativization strategies in Cape Verdean Creole (Santiago variety), especially focusing on wh-movement of PPs. The book explores the Copy Theory of Movement, discussing... more...

  • Introduction to Arabic Natural Language Processingby Nizar Habash; Graeme Hirst

    Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2010; US$ 40.00

    This book provides system developers and researchers in natural language processing and computational linguistics with the necessary background information for working with the Arabic language. The goal is to introduce Arabic linguistic phenomena and review the state-of-the-art in Arabic processing. The book discusses... more...

  • Origins of a Creoleby Bart Jacobs

    De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00

    This study embarks on the intriguing quest for the origins of the Caribbean creole language Papiamentu, casting new and long-lasting light on the issue. Embedding exhaustive and rigorous linguistic comparisons in a detailed and novel historical framework, the study convincingly argues that Papiamentu is genetically related to the Portuguese-based creoles... more...