Overview :The people who live in the Boumaa region of the Fijian island of Taveuni speak a dialect of Fijian that is mutually intelligible with Standa... Read More
Overview :A distinguished international group of scholars analyze the concept of "word" and its applicability in a range of typologically diverse lang... Read More
Overview :A complement clause is used instead of a noun phrase; for example one can say either I heard the result] or I heard that England beat Fran... Read More
Overview :The Amazon Basin is the least known and the most complex linguistic region in the world today. It is the home of some 300 languages many of ... Read More
Overview :R. M. W. Dixon's landmark 1972 grammar of the Dyirbal language of North Queensland is one of the best-known and most widely-cited language d... Read More
Overview :This book explores the variety of types of complementation found across the languages of the world and their grammatical properties and mean... Read More
Overview :This book puts forward a new approach to language change, the punctuated equilibrium model. This is based on the premise that during most of... Read More
Overview :Australian Aboriginal Words in English records the Aboriginal contribution to Australian English and provides the fullest available informat... Read More
Overview :This book sets out to answer a question that many linguists have been hesitant to ask: are some languages better than others? Can we say, fo... Read More
Overview :This book shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate. The author starts from the notio... Read More
Overview :This book presents a wealth of information on some of the most interesting languages in the world, most of them little-known in the linguist... Read More
Overview :Speakers of Dyirbal in North Queensland, Australia, have an everyday language style which has been well described. They also have an avoidan... Read More