Catching Language Hardcover - 2006
by Felix K. Ameka (Editor); Alan Dench (Editor); Nicholas Evans (Editor)
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This is the first book to focus on the problem of writing grammars of little-known languages, a task of major urgency as linguists face the challenge of documenting the thousands of endangered languages around the world. Its different chapters are written by a distinguished group of grammarians, typologists and theoreticians, who represent a wide range of different descriptive traditions and have themselves described little-known languages of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The book addresses the many questions that the author of a reference grammar must tackle, as they try and distil the regularities of a whole language into a single integrated volume whose audience will lie at the intersection of language specialists, typologists, formal linguists, and members of the speech community.
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- Title Catching Language
- Author Felix K. Ameka (Editor); Alan Dench (Editor); Nicholas Evans (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 670
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Walter de Gruyter
- Date 2006-11-16
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9783110186031 / 3110186039
- Weight 2.42 lbs (1.10 kg)
- Dimensions 9.16 x 6.4 x 1.58 in (23.27 x 16.26 x 4.01 cm)
- Ages 22 to 22 years
- Grade levels 17 - 17
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006022868
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.066
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2007, Page 259
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