Routledge World Languages

Routledge World Languages provides modern and up-to-date basic grammatical descriptions of understudied languages around the world, with particular attention to the minority, the endangered, and the extinct languages. Each volume contains a grammar sketch describing the structure (phonology, morphology, and syntax) or a relevant aspect of the structure of a single language. Grammar sketches should also include sociolinguistic and historical information to complement the overview of that language and one or more short texts analyzed morphemically. A word list or a basic vocabulary may also accompany a grammatical sketch. Contributions can come from a range of sources, including dissertations, field notes, and, in the case of extinct languages, reworkings of extant non-professional descriptions. For print volumes, our preference is up to 275 printed book pages.

Routledge World Languages is a peer-reviewed series. The publisher and its editor will collaborate with authors to ensure it is held to the highest standards. Authors are expected to write in English to reach a wider readership, to describe a language in its own terms rather than on the model of a well-known language or of some prestigious framework, to follow Leipzig glossing rules, and to use the IPA conventions or, when existing, the official spelling of the language described. Interested scholars should contact the series editor at [email protected]. For information on book proposals and publishing with Routledge, please see www.routledge.com/our-customers/authors/why-publish-with-us.

The volumes of the Routledge World Languages are intended for a broad audience, including students and scholars of Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics, Linguistics Typology, Endangered Languages, and Anthropology, community languages teachers, and the general public. The series aims to give the reader an understanding of the diversity of historical-natural languages in general.