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1. 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 February 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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 September 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. Gulf Arabic

   By Clive Holes

   Series: Descriptive Grammars

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
5. Evenki

   By Igor Nedjalkov

   Series: Descriptive Grammars

   Evenki is one of the nine Tungusic languages spoken in Siberia and Northern China. This books gives a complete description of all this language's linguistics domains. Evenki is remarkable for both the vast area where it is spoken- from Western Siberia to the Amur regions and from the shores of the...

   Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge
6. Marathi

   By Rajeshwari Pandharipande

   Series: Descriptive Grammars

   This is a complete grammatical description of Marathi, which belongs to the Indo-European family and is spoken in Maharashtra State in India. It has around 45 million speakers, who comprise about eight per cent of the total population of India. Marathi is particularly interesting from the point of...

   Published October 4th 2010 by Routledge
7. Rapanui

   A Descriptive Grammar

   By Veronica du Feu

   Series: Descriptive Grammars

   Rapanui, the language of Easter Island, is in danger of extinction. A Polynesian language, closely related to Maori, it is spoken by less than 2000 people. This description, based on recordings made in the 1980s and on information provided by the islanders, represents Veronica De Feu's...

   Published October 4th 2010 by Routledge
8. Maori

   By Winifred Bauer

   Series: Descriptive Grammars

   This descriptive grammar provides a uniquely comprehensive description of Maori, the East Polynesian language of the indigenous people of New Zealand. Today, the language is under threat and it seems likely that the Maori of the future will differ quite considerably from the Maori of the...

   Published October 4th 2010 by Routledge
9. Hungarian

   By Istvan Kenesei, Robert M. Vago, Anna Fenyvesi

   Series: Descriptive Grammars

   Hungarian is spoken by 14-15 million people worldwide. A unique language, completely unrelated to the languages of its neighbouring countries, it boasts a grammar full of complex features and vocabulary of basically Uralic (Finno-Ugric) origin. Hungarian addresses current issues in the description...

   Published October 4th 2010 by Routledge
10. Kashmiri

    A Cognitive-Descriptive Grammar

    By Omkar N. Koul, Kashi Wali

    Series: Descriptive Grammars

    Kashmir boasts a language which challenges every field of linguistics. Kashmiri is spoken by approximately 3,000,000 people. Its syntax, similar to Germanic and other verb second languages, has raised many significant issues within current generative theories proposed by Chomsky and other prominent...

    Published October 4th 2010 by Routledge