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  • Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages

    Edited by Ivano Caponigro, Harold Torrence, Roberto Zavala Maldonado ...
    Headless relative clauses have received little attention in the linguistic literature, despite the many morpho-syntactic and semantic puzzles they raise. These clauses have been even more neglected in the study of Mesoamerican languages. Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages constitutes the first in-depth, systematic study of the topic. Spanning fifteen languages from five language ... Read more

    $122.39 USD

  • Africa's Endangered Languages

    Documentary and Theoretical Approaches

    Edited by Jason Kandybowicz, Harold Torrence ...
    Relatively little is known about Africa's endangered languages. Unlike indigenous languages in Australia, North Asia, and the Americas, which are predominantly threatened by colonizers, African languages are threatened most immediately by other local languages. As a result, the threat of language extinction is perceived as lower in Africa than in other parts of the globe, and a disproportionate ... Read more

    $119.69 USD

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  • Analysing English Sentences

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  • Clause Structure

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  • Exploring Language Structure

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  • Exploring Nanosyntax

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  • Blackfoot Grammar

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    by Donald G. Frantz ...
    Although thousands of people in Alberta and Montana speak Blackfoot, an Algonquian language, their numbers are diminishing and the survival of Blackfoot is in danger.Blackfoot Grammar, the companion volume to The Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots and Affixes Third Edition, provides description and analyses of the major features of Blackfoot grammar and language structures. The changes ... Read more

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  • Topics in Kwa Syntax

    Edited by Enoch O. Aboh, James Essegbey ...
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    This book grew out of a concern we have had that very many theoretical and descriptive work on the Kwa languages were not accessible to the general linguistic community. As a result, these languages were only referred to in the context of very specific discussions such as serial verb constructions. But as the reader of this book will notice, syntactic topics discussed in the context of Kwa range ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of Role and Reference Grammar

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