Grammar, syntax books

Ainu is an indigenous people of Japan, and their language is in danger of extinction.If the language is to express...  Read More >>

Written entirely in Spanish, Manual de fonética y fonología españolas has a comprehensive scope that touches on...  Read More >>

This book proposes Meaning-order Approach to Pedagogical Grammar (MAP Grammar) as a practical pedagogical approach...  Read More >>

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This book explores language variation and change from the perspective of generative syntax, based on a case study...  Read More >>

This book is the first and so far only formally precise machinery converting well-motivated semantic sentence representations...  Read More >>

This book deals with the interplay between word-formation and metonymy. It shows that, like metaphor, metonymy interacts...  Read More >>

This book presents a collection of chapters on the nature, flexibility and acquisition of lexical categories.  Read More >>

This volume surveys a variety of verb valency change phenomena among diverse languages and from diverse theoretical...  Read More >>

The world's best-known authority on the English language reveals the secrets and subtleties of its grammar.  Read More >>

The first edition of the Practical Orthography of African Languages was a best-seller and this and the following...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1987, this thesaurus is concerned with the spoken languages of Africa. Languages are grouped...  Read More >>

This volume, originally published in 1970, presents a survey of the languages spoken in an area extending from the...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1952, this volume shows the structural characteristics of the Berber language and its interrelations...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1940 this book focusses on the three main groups of Eastern Sudanic languages, namely Moru-Madi,...  Read More >>

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This volume, originally published in 1957, contains the linguistic evidence for the classification of the languages...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1956, this volume presents a survey of the non-Bantu languages in the area extending south...  Read More >>

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Volume 2 of African Languages includes articles originally published in 1976, written in French and English on educational,...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1978, this volume is divided into 3 parts. Part 1 presents an overview of the linguistic...  Read More >>