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11. Turkish

    By Jaklin Kornfilt

    Series: Descriptive Grammars

    Turkish is spoken by about fifty million people in Turkey and is the co-official language of Cyprus. Whilst Turkish has a number of properties that are similar to those of other Turkic languages, it has distinct and interesting characteristics which are given full coverage in this book. Jaklin...

    Published March 31st 2010 by Routledge
12. Persian

    By Shahrzad Mahootian

    Series: Descriptive Grammars

    Persian, or Farsi, is one of the world's oldest languages. Dating back to the sixth century B.C., it is spoken today by over forty million people in Iran and 5 million in Afghanistan. Now available in paperback for the first time, this comprehensive grammar of Persian provides detailed...

    Published March 31st 2010 by Routledge
13. Tuvaluan

    A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific.

    By Niko Besnier

    Series: Descriptive Grammars

    Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language spoken by the 9,000 inhabitants of the nine atolls of Tuvalu in the Central Pacific, as well as small and growing Tuvaluan communities in Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia. This grammar is the first detailed description of the structure of Tuvaluan, one of the least...

    Published December 22nd 1999 by Routledge
14. Wari

    By Daniel L. Everett, Barbara Kern

    Series: Descriptive Grammars

    This is the first major study of any Chapakuran language and makes an important contribution to linguistic theory. This study is especially timely as the Chapakuran languages of Western Brazil and Eastern Bolivia are endangered, and less than 2,000 known speakers of Wari and its related dialects...

    Published October 29th 1997 by Routledge
15. Malayalam

    By R. E. Asher

    Series: Descriptive Grammars

    Malayalam is one of the four major Dravidian languages spoken principally in the southern part of India. It has a recorded history of eight centuries and is spoken by more than thirty million people on the Malabar coast of southern IndiaThis is the first detailed description of Malayalam, providing...

    Published July 9th 1997 by Routledge
16. Koromfe

    By John Rennison

    Series: Descriptive Grammars

    This is the first detailed linguistic analysis of Koromfe, the local language spoken in the north of Burkina Faso, West Africa, providing data which sheds light on many previously unanswered questions about Koromfe and general linguistics....

    Published January 1st 1997 by Routledge
17. Maltese

    By Marie Azzopardi-Alexander, Albert Borg

    Series: Descriptive Grammars

    Focusing primarily on Standard Maltese, the authors clarify many areas which, until now, remain undefined, with emphasis on syntax and intonation. English loanwords continue to find their way into Standard Maltese, especially as the Maltese inhabitants become increasingly bilingual, and the...

    Published November 13th 1996 by Routledge
18. Nigerian Pidgin

    By Nick Faraclas

    Series: Descriptive Grammars

    This is the first comprehensive grammar of Nigerian Pidgin. This book provides basic descriptive and analytical treatment of the syntax, morphology and phonology of a language which may soon become the most widely spoken in all of Africa....

    Published April 24th 1996 by Routledge
19. Ndyuka

    By George L. Huttar, Mary L. Huttar

    Series: Descriptive Grammars

    The most thorough description of a creole language to date. It provides detailed coverage of a full range of grammatical, phonological and lexical information, giving a rich picture of the aspects of this radical creole....

    Published November 2nd 1994 by Routledge
20. Finnish

    By Merja Karalainen, Helena Sulkala

    Series: Descriptive Grammars

    Explores many interesting details of Finnish syntax, morphology, phonology and lexicon, providing the linguist, for the first time in English, the opportunity for cross-language comparisons and detailed linguistic analysis....

    Published March 11th 1992 by Routledge