• Language, creoles, varieties

  Granget, Cyrille; Repiso, Isabel (2024)

  This book offers a selection of papers dealing with second language acquisition, foreign language teaching and creole linguistics inspired by the scientific legacy of Mauritian-born scholar Georges Daniel Véronique ...
• Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar

  Dalrymple, Mary (2024)

  Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory of linguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan and Ronald M. Kaplan, which assumes that language is best described and modeled by ...
• Endangered African Knowledges and the Challenge of Modernity

  Ude, Donald Mark C. (2024)

  This book presents an innovative African philosophical response to coloniality and the attendant epistemicide of Africa’s knowledge systems, drawing on Igbo thinking. This book argues that theorizing modernity requires a ...
• Modal particles in Italian

  Favaro, Marco (2024)

  This study investigates the properties of a set of Italian adverbs (among others: pure ‘also’, solo ‘only’, un po’ ‘a bit’) that, in specific contexts of use, modify the speech acts in which they appear. On the one hand, ...
• Compound Intonation Units in Totoli

  Bracks, Christoph (2024)

  This book is an investigation into aspects of prosody, intonation and the prosody-syntax interface in Totoli, an endangered Austronesian language. With a strongly data-driven approach, the study integrates a combination ...

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