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11. 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 April 14th 2013 by Routledge
12. 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 April 14th 2013 by Routledge
13. 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 April 14th 2013 by Routledge
14. Language Life in Japan

    Transformations and Prospects

    Edited by Patrick Heinrich, Christian Galan

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

    Despite its monolingual self-image, Japan is multilingual and growing more so due to indigenous minority language revitalization and as an effect of migration. Besides Japan's autochthonous languages such as the Ainu and Ryukyuan languages, there are more than 75,000 immigrant children in the...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
15. Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory

    Perspectives on Literary Metaphor

    Edited by Monika Fludernik

    Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics

    In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory. The volume's goals are three-fold. The first aim of the book is to present some recent approaches to metaphor which have no immediate connection with...

    Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
16. Pointing

    Where Language, Culture, and Cognition Meet

    Edited by Sotaro Kita

    Pointing has captured the interest of scholars from various fields who study communication. However, ideas and findings have been scattered across diverse publications in different disciplines, and opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange have been very limited. The editor's aim is to provide...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
17. Children's Language

    Volume 10: Developing Narrative and Discourse Competence

    Edited by Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡, Carolyn E. Johnson, Ayhan Aksu-Koc

    These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
18. Handbook of Japanese Grammar

    By Harold Henderson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    This grammar has been written to help the student to think in the Japanese way. Part One contains several introductory notes on Nomenclature, Syntax, Verbs, Aru, Iru, Oru, on Adjectives and on Foreign Words. Part Two concentrates on connectives – the particles and suffixes which modify the sense of...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
19. Artificial Hearing, Natural Speech

    Cochlear Implants, Speech Production, and the Expectations of a High-Tech Society

    By Joanna Hart Lowenstein

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    This book explores the interface between speech perception and production through a longitudinal acoustic analysis of the speech of postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants (electrode and computer prostheses for the inner ear in cases of nerve deafness). The methodology is based on the work...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
20. Enriched Composition and Inference in the Argument Structure of Chinese

    By Ren Zhang

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge