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Hilary M. Carey
The Colonial Bible in Australia

This book provides an extended introduction to the scripture translations of Biraban, an Awabakal man, and the missionary Lancelot Threlkeld. It examines Threlkeld¿s linguistic field work in Raiatea prior…

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G. Tucker Childs
A grammar of Sherbro

This is the first modern grammar and dictionary of Sherbro, an endangered Mel language spoken by ca. 50,000 people in Sierra Leone. The language faces significant pressure being abandoned in favor of the …

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Christian Döhler
Speaking the map

This collection of fourteen texts in Komnzo offers an insight into the language and culture of the Farem people, their storytelling tradition, oral history, mythology and everyday life. It contains storie…

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Guillaume Jacques
A grammar of Japhug : Second edition

Japhug is a vulnerable Gyalrongic language, which belongs to the Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) family. It is spoken by several thousand speakers in Mbarkham county, Rngaba district, Sichuan province, Chi…

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Otto Jespersen,
Negation in English and other languages

Otto Jespersen's landmark study of negation provides a wide-ranging analysis of how languages express negative meaning. Drawing on an impressive array of historical texts and comparative examples, primari…

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Ryan Kasak
A grammar of Mandan

Mandan is a Siouan language of North Dakota, near the geographic center of North America. There are no longer any first-language speakers after the last fluent speaker passed away in 2016. This grammar ha…

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Ji Yea Kim, Veronica Miatto, Andrija Petrovi¿, Lori Repetti
Epenthesis and beyond

The study of epenthesis, or the insertion of a non-etymological segment, has been at the core of phonological theory from the start, and recent approaches extend beyond phonology to include phonetic consi…

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Constantijn Kaland
Word stress in prosodic theory

This book is composed of four studies that all investigate different aspects of word stress in Papuan Malay, an Austronesian language spoken in eastern Indonesia. These aspects, in order of presentation, …

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Maria Lialiou
Prosody and attention orienting: The role of rising intonation in speech processing

Humans are confronted everyday with an influx of sounds coming from several sources. In a given auditory environment, some of the sound events might be unexpected, rare, or new. Our cognitive system has t…

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Kate L. Lindsey
The Ende way : Short stories and songs from Limol prepared with the Ende Language Committee

This collection of Ende stories and songs contains 20 texts from theEnde Language Corpus, a repository of Ende language and culture. Thetexts were compiled by the Ende Language Committee and represent adi…

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Alexis Michaud
Tone in Yongning Na

Yongning Na, also known as Mosuo, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Southwest China. This book provides a description and analysis of its tone system, progressing from lexical tones towards morphotonol…

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Jelien Moens, Matthias Pache
Notes on the grammar of Andakí

This book presents the first grammatical description of Andakí, an extinct language and presumed isolate once spoken in southern Colombia. Written in an accessible style, this book is valuable to both lin…

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Andrey Nikulin, Javier Carol
Historical phonology of Mataguayan

This book discusses the phonological history of Mataguayan, a language family that includes no less than four distinct languages ¿ Maká, Niväle, Chorote, and Wichí ¿ spoken by ca. 65.000 individuals in th…

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Jean Rohleder
A grammar of Vamale

Vamale is an endangered South Oceanic > Northern New Caledonian language, spoken by around 180 people on the northeastern coast of Grande Terre. This grammar was written as a PhD dissertation, on the b…

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Lisa Schäfer
The licensing and usage of topic drop in German

This book is concerned with the licensing and usage of the elliptical construction topic drop in German. The term topic drop refers to the omission of the preverbal constituent in declarative verb-second …

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Simona Sbranna
Prosody and interactional fluency of Italian learners of German

This book explores the development of prosodic and interactional competence in second language acquisition, drawing on data from peer interactions by Italian learners of German in both German and their na…

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Katerina Somers
How to create an early German scriptus

This book presents a new methodology for the study of historical varieties, particularly a language¿s early history. Using the German language¿s first attestations as a case study, it offers an alternativ…

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Clara Stockigt
Australian Pama-Nyungan languages

A substantial proportion of what is discoverable about the structure of many Aboriginal languages spoken on the vast Australian continent before their decimation through colonial invasion is contained in …

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Annika Vieregge
Bewertung und Variation der Präpositionalkasus im Deutschen

Die Arbeit untersucht den Einfluss der metapragmatischen Bewertung von Genitiv und Dativ auf die Nutzung der Kasus in Präpositionalphrasen. Die Variation zwischen Genitiv- und Dativrektion betrifft insbes…

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Natalie Verelst
The dynamics of feminisation : A corpus-based diachronic analysis of Dutch and German feminising morphology

In this book, feminisation - the marking of female sex on personal nouns - in Dutch and German is investigated contrastively, diachronically, and corpus-linguistically. The corpus-based approach entails a…

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