SubjectsLinguistics / Language documentation

Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language

Edited by Marianna Bolognesi, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot

This book describes methods, risks, and challenges involved in the construction of metaphor and metonymy digital repositories. The first part of this volume showcases established and new projects around the world in which metaphors and metonymies are harvested and classified. The second part… read more

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 8] 2019. x, 263 pp.

Ute Dictionary

T. Givón

This third volume of our Ute language collection contains the Ute dictionary. It opens with several introductory chapters that link the dictionary to our Ute Reference Grammar (2011) and explain the structure and use of the dictionary. The bulk of the information on the meaning and usage of Ute… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 15] 2016. xiv, 373 pp.

Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa

Edited by James Essegbey, Brent Henderson and Fiona Mc Laughlin

This volume brings together a number of important perspectives on language documentation and endangerment in Africa from an international cohort of scholars with vast experience in the field. Offering insights from rural and urban settings throughout the continent, these essays consider topics that… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 17] 2015. vi, 317 pp.

Language Endangerment: Disappearing metaphors and shifting conceptualizations

Edited by Elisabeth Piirainen and Ari Sherris

Languages and language varieties around the globe have been diminishing at an astonishing rate. Despite great efforts at language documentation, scholarship on metaphors and figurative units – often particularly fragile parts of language – has been largely neglected until recently. This book, like… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 7] 2015. vi, 208 pp.

Language Description Informed by Theory

Edited by Rob Pensalfini, Myfany Turpin and Diana Guillemin

This volume explores how linguistic theories inform the ways in which languages are described. Theories, as representations of linguistic categories, guide the field linguist to look for various phenomena without presupposing their necessary existence and provide the tools to account for various… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 147] 2014. xii, 391 pp.

Responses to Language Endangerment: In honor of Mickey Noonan. New directions in language documentation and language revitalization

Edited by Elena Mihas, Bernard Perley, Gabriel Rei-Doval and Kathleen Wheatley

This volume further complicates and advances the contemporary perspective on language endangerment by examining the outcomes of the most commonly cited responses to language endangerment, i.e. language documentation, language revitalization, and training. The present collection takes stock of many… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 142] 2013. xv, 273 pp.

Ute Texts

Compiled and edited by T. Givón

This second volume of our Ute trilogy contains a collection of Ute oral texts. Ute oral literature reflects the life experience of a small-scale hunting-and-gathering Society of Intimates and its tight connection to the local terrain, flora and fauna that supported the hunter-gatherer life. Ute… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 7] 2013. xvi, 333 pp.

Cambodian: Khmer

John Haiman †

Cambodian is in many respects a typical Southeast Asian language, whose syntax at least on first acquaintance seems to approximate that of any SVO pidgin. On closer acquaintance, however, because of the richness of its idioms, the language seems to be a forbiddingly alien form of “Desesperanto” – a… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 16] 2011. xix, 425 pp.

Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800

Otto Zwartjes

From the 16th century onwards, Europeans encountered languages in the Americas, Africa, and Asia which were radically different from any of the languages of the Old World. Missionaries were in the forefront of this encounter: in order to speak to potential converts, they needed to learn local… read more

[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 117] 2011. xiv, 359 pp.

Ute Reference Grammar

T. Givón

Ute is a Uto-Aztecan language of the northernmost (Numic) branch, currently spoken on three reservations in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Like many other native languages of Northern America, Ute is severely endangered. This book is part of the effort toward its preservation. Typologically,… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 3] 2011. xxiii, 441 pp.

Language Documentation: Practice and values

Edited by Lenore A. Grenoble and N. Louanna Furbee

Language documentation, also often called documentary linguistics, is a relatively new subfield in linguistics which has emerged in part as a response to the pressing need for collecting, describing, and archiving material on the increasing number of endangered languages. The present book details… read more

[Not in series, 158] 2010. xviii, 340 pp.

New Perspectives on Endangered Languages: Bridging gaps between sociolinguistics, documentation and language revitalization

Edited by José Antonio Flores Farfán and Fernando F. Ramallo

Understanding sociolinguistics as a theoretical and methodological framework hopefully could attempt to promote change and social development in human communities. Yet it still presents important political, epistemological, methodological and theoretical challenges. A sociolinguistics of… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 1] 2010. v, 156 pp.

Armenian: Modern Eastern Armenian

Jasmine Dum-Tragut

This grammar of Modern Eastern Armenian gives a precise and explicit description of the Eastern Armenian language of the Republic of Armenia. It covers not only the normative tradition but, more importantly, also describes the colloquial language as it is used in Armenia today. With regard to… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 14] 2009. xv, 742 pp.

Marathi

Ramesh Vaman Dhongde and Kashi Wali

Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language, is the official language of Maharashtra, including Mumbai. Father Thomas Stephens, the first English traveler to Goa, a pioneer linguist, wrote Christa Puran in Marathi (1616) and Arte da Lingoa Canarim in Portuguese, printed in (1640). The latter is a grammar of… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 13] 2009. xviii, 340 pp.